Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...games on February 2, the Crimson relay team defeated Yale by nearly half a lap in the yearly two-mile race. And in the one mile relay at the Intercollegiates, last Saturday, an untried Harvard team entered against a score of crack college teams, finished in second place, being beaten by only a fraction of an inch by the famous Yale quartet in close to world's record time...
...yards distance for the Freshmen held their own effectively against the opposing runners. Then, in the 220 yard lap, the Crimson chances seemed completely shattered, when Miller pulled a tendon early in his sprint and was forced to hobble around the track for 180 yards, while the runners for Boston College and Yale forger far ahead. Starting with this tremendous handicap, Baggorty, the Freshman anchor man, began to cut down this lead from the time he took up the baton for the mile run. It seemed a hopeless task. But at the start of the last lap he uncorked...
...CRIMSON team, chosen by athletic savants as the best four entered in the event, again demonstrated the triumph of mind over matter by romping around the boards and finishing more than half a lap from its nearest opponent, the Lampoon team, in the Publications' Relay. The Advocate team, the CRIMSON's only other rival in the event, entirely failed to show up at the grounds, and thus lost by default...
...only important disappointment of the afternoon came in the third lap of the one-mile relay. R. L. Brooks '26 and L. L. Robb '25 had earned a five-yard Crimson lead, when Bates of Dartmouth ran wild against K. M. Rogers '26, and piled up a 30-yard Green advantage which Captain Merrill, anchor, could not overcome...
...long relay with Yale was the University's almost from the start. Geilfuss of Yale and Allen exchanged the pole twice in the early laps of the opening leg, but the latter finally asserted his mastery. Chapin, following him, received a ten-yard lead, and passed it on to his successor, Cutcheon with 15 yards more, while Watters, at anchor, started 40 yards ahead of Chapman, and finished with a half-lap advantage in the fast time of 8 minutes, 11 and 2-5 seconds...