Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most closely contested race was the two-mile run. P. Woodman '08, with a handicap of 200 yards, led for the first two laps but coming into the stretch on the third lap, was passed by C. J. Jackman '06, with a handicap of 175 yards. R. Grant 4M., scratch, overtook Jackman on the fourth lap and thereafter set the pace, finally winning by 5 yards in 10 minutes, 8 seconds. W. G. Howard '07, with a handicap of 80 yards, was about 10 yards behind Jackman...
...Dickinson '05, with a handicap of 125 feet, was never overtaken in the mile run and crossed the line 30 yards ahead of A. S. Cobb '07, scratch: In the 880-yard run R. F. Hamwatt '06, with a handicap of 25 yards, led for the first lap but was then passed by C. Brinsmade '07, with a handicap of 10 yards...
...mile race Dives made a poor start and finished 20 yards behind Dear of Pennsylvania. Bauer lost still more ground so that on the third lap Young started over 100 yards behind Johnston of Yale. He made up some of the distance but not enough to give Rust a chance to win. The sharp pace which Rust had to set to overtake the field could not be sustained and he finished 200 yards behind Long of Yale, who defeated Taylor of Pennsylvania in an exciting finish. In the four-mile relay race, teams were entered by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania...
...floor, there is room enough for two basketball courts. In our Gymnasium, we can hardly squeeze in one, and that is slightly under regulation size. Princeton has just completed a new gymnasium which is one of the largest in the country. The Columbia gymnasium is equipped with a ten lap indoor track and in the basement has scores of private shower baths. A swimming tank finished in marble is also in the basement. This tank is 100 feet in length and at its widest point is 50 feet. The floor is so made that from or steel nails, are done...
...Cornell men finished in the first twelve places, W. F. Schutt of Cornell, winning the individual championship. At the start C. S. Jacobus of Yale took the lead, closely followed by Schutt, W. J. Hall of Yale and K. W. Woodward of Cornell. By the end of the first lap, however, Schutt had taken the lead with Woodward second and Hail third, which positions they held to the finish. Time...