Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lead to get the pole. Warren, and Church, the third man for Pennsylvania, ran very evenly, but Warren led at the finish and enabled H. Jaques, Jr., '11, to take the pole at the beginning of the last relay. Boyle, Pennsylvania's last runner, passed him on the first lap, but Jaques resumed the lead on the second. Boyle again passed Jaques and held the lead for the third and fourth laps. On the straightaway of the last lap, Jaques made a desperate effort to catch Boyle, and in the last 20 yards got the pole, and the two struck...
Arrangements have been made for the following relay races: a race between the University 390-yard relay team and the B. A. A. team, each man to run three laps; between the Harvard Freshman 390-yard relay team and the Yale Freshman team; between the B. A. A. Midgets and the Brookline Gymnasium Midgets, four men on a team, each to run one lap of 130 yards; between the Harvard second 390-yard relay team and English High School; between a team made up of first year law men and first year medical men, four men on a team, each...
...South Armory, Irvington street, Boston. The open handicap events will be: 75-yard dash, 70-yard low hurdles, 440-yard run, 1000-yard run, running high jump. Open scratch events will be a 10-mile relay run for two-men teams and relay races, each man to run one lap. The track will be nine laps to the mile, with raised corners. First, second, and third prizes will be awarded for each event...
...able to gain on the other until the finish, when Everett drew up alongside. P. Newton '11, the second runner for the University, secured a poor start, allowing Samson of Technology a four-yard lead. Newton, however, gradually cut down this advantage, and passing his opponent on the last lap in a fine burst of speed, crossed the line 10 yards ahead. H. M. Warren '13 held Marceau easily for three laps, and ran away from him on the fourth. H. Jaques, Jr., '11, who took up the race at this point as the last man for the University, played...
Thompson, the first man for M. I. T. in the one-mile race, held the lead, which was his by virtue of the pole at start, until the middle of the second lap, when he was passed by R. C. Foster '11. W. H. Fernald '12, increased the lead of three yards which Foster handed over, until he had five on Cummings. Guething, Technology's third man showed more speed than H. W. Kelley '11, and almost caught him at the end of the relay. Kelley and D. P. Ranney '12 lost the race at this point by imperfect tagging...