Word: marathon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...relay race from Chateau-Thierry to Paris. Each team will be composed of twenty-five men who will run three miles apiece. The harriers will carry a message to President Wilson by a soldier who took part in the battle of Chateau-Thierry. Should this event prove successful, the marathon race will be held annually...
Coach Donovan will give the distance runners a two-mile tryout on the cinder track in the Stadium at 5 o'clock this afternoon for the purpose of sizing up the material and choosing the best men for the R. O. T. C. marathon relay on April 19, in which the University Corps is to enter a team of ten runners. A large proportion of the men chosen for the run of Patriots' Day will undoubtedly be Freshmen, for the 1921 team is unusually strong in distance...
Lewis will also captain the R. O. T. C. relay team which has arranged to enter the road race over the Ashland-Boston marathon course on Patriots' Day, April 19. He has been the most successful long distance runner in the class of 1920, winning many cross-country races. He was captain of his Freshman cross-country team and also led the University cross-country team last fall. He has, in addition, entered many amateur races about Boston...
...meeting of the distance runners will be held in a few days to decide definitely as to whether or not the University R. O. T. C. will enter a team in the Patriot's Day marathon relay race. There have been some objections to such a step from members of the track team on the ground that the race comes during vacation. It is probable that the team will enter, however, as it will not be necessary for the men to remain at Cambridge all the week. It is planned to have them merely keep in condition by daily jogs...
According to the present plans of the track management, the University R. O. T. C. will enter a team of 10 men in the annual B. A. A. marathon on April 19. The race is a 25-mile one, each man to run two and a half miles. If the regiment is represented in the marathon, it will be the first time that the University has competed in this race...