Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first "jam" of the first six-day bicycle race in six years was under way. The crowd came alive as relief riders piled onto the track to take over from tiring teammates. The race itself became a wheeled madhouse as the hard-pumping Aussies tried to steal a lap on two-man teams representing the U.S. and eight other countries...
Third man Morris went through his first lap three yards behind Kirchner, but at the far turn pulled up to the Eli and went to pass him. As he tried to move in, Kirschner hit him several times with his elbow. Morris slapped at Kirschner's arm, accidentally knocking the baton out of his hand. From then on, the race was gravy. He passed to anchorman Dick Wharton thirty yards ahead of second place N.Y.U., Wharton eventually increasing the lead...
Earlier in the evening, Wharton had won the Eddie Farrell 500-yard run, beating Basil Ince of Tufts and Mac Hassler of Williams. After spurting into the lead after the first lap and a half, Wharton literally coasted in to win by 10 yards in the slow, for him, time of 59.1 seconds...
...freshman mile relay team picked up the other Crimson victory of the evening as it ran the Providence and Brown freshmen into the ground. Pat Liles, although boxed in badly at the start, passed the other two men during the third lap and haded off to second man Bob Hoyt 10 yards ahead of Providence. Hoyt opened this lead up until he had nearly a half lap on Providence, Art Cahn held this lead, and anchorman Ed Martin increased it to nearly three-quarters of a lap at the wire...
...mile relay, the Crimson was unable to offset a disastrously slow first leg by Bob Weil, who passed off to Bill Thompson nearly a half lap behind first-running Yale. Thompson made up a little of this deficit, but neither Dave Spinney nor Dave McLean could close...