Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...racing that they could not tell the leaders from the losers. The best they could do as they tried to untangle the action was wait for the tangible excitement of big spills-and there were plenty. At week's end seven teams were within a lap of the lead, but the fans seemed to care more for spectacle than speed...
...first time at the Philadelphia Inquirer meet, he ran a slow 4:10.8, finished third behind Boston's George King (4:10.1) and Chicago's Phil Coleman (4:10.7). Next night in Washington, B.C., Tabori switched to the two-mile run, dropped out on the twelfth lap with stomach cramps. The winner: Polish Refugee John Macy (9:02.6), now a student at the University of Houston. Olympic Hurdles Champion Lee Calhoun came back from a Philadelphia defeat by Decathlon Champion Milt Campbell and beat Campbell in Washington with a world indoor record 8.2 sec. time...
With the Garden band's Old Howard music spurring it on, the varsity mile relay team established its superiority over Yale beyond a shadow of a doubt in the B.A.A. Meet Saturday night. It romped in 20 yards ahead of Dartmouth, and nearly a half-lap ahead of Yale in a creditable...
Mike Robertson, leading off from lane two, moved ahead at the end of the first half-lap, maintained a two-yard lead over Yale's Ed Holahan, until just before the handoff, when he increased...
Morris added another two yards, maintaining this lead for two laps. In his last lap, Morris unleashed a tremendous sprint which brought him in 15 ahead...