Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aware that in the days before the battle at Marathon, Pheidippides was detailed to run to Sparta (approximately 150 miles) to ask for aid? He then ran back to Athens and shortly thereafter took active part in a battle that lasted several hours. Finally he was ordered to run from the site of the battle to Athens to announce the Athenian victory. If one of the modern Boston Marathon runners can match this record...
Princeton has gone 3-4 so far this year against a brutal schedule that included the three Maryland meanies: Maryland, Hopkins and Navy. The Tigers also met undefeated, fourth-ranked Penn, bowing to the Quakers in a hard-fought triple-overtime marathon...
...remind those of you who may have been sleeping during this past week what a great week it has been for sports in the Boston area. The red Sox won their first game, the Celts teased the Sixers and then beat them with a hoop at the buzzer, the Marathon was run, and the Bruins have been playing admirably in Los Angeles, even though they have to use roller skates to move. Locally, every Harvard team has been doing swell, and the weather has been beautiful. We all should go out and watch our intercollegiate representatives march toward triumph. Besides...
After the race, Bill Berkeley sat on a cot in the basement of the Prudential and talked quietly of what the Marathon had meant to him. Berkeley was no stranger to the 26 miles and 385 yards between Hopkinton's town green and the recovery room he and hundreds of others like him were resting in--he had tried the year before in the near-intolerable heat. He didn't make it in 1976, stopping after 17 miles. So Berkeley had hoped his second shot would erase that memory. "I didn't do anything but pass people...
Certainly Bally and Berkeley are worlds apart, in upbringing and education, in language and athletic ability. But their stories illustrate the variety of experience and the alwaysfresh quality of the Boston Marathon. There is enough space, by the way, to mention that Johnny Kelley the elder, the Marathon's 69-year-old institution, trotted across the yellow finish line roughly three hours and 30 minutes after he started. And the gray-haired runner was smiling...