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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athletic records can point to a successful repulse of all assaults over a stretch of years that extends back to the nineteenth century. Yet that is the case with the 220 yard dash at the I. C. A. A. A. A. championships, for the present mark of 21 1-5 seconds was made in 1896 by B. J. Wefers of Georgetown. Only two men, R. C. Craig of Michigan, and D. F. Lippincott of the University of Pennsylvania, have succeeded in equalling this record in the 28 meets which have been held since Wefers broke the best previous mark...
...American colleges deserve the greatest praise for their marvelous progress in javelin throwing. The event was not added to the Intercollegiate championship program until 1922, but the present record made by C. H. Storrs of Yale is 199 feet, 1 inch, a mark which compares very favorably with the Olympic record of 215 feet 9 3-4 inches which Jonni Myyra of Finished established...
...record for a hundred yards has been beaten; again the wind was at the runner's back. Philip Barber, running in front of a Pacific breeze last week in San Francisco, made the distance in 9 5/10 sec., beating by 1/10 sec. the accepted record, tying the mark recently set by Roland Locke of Nebraska...
...Times: The Turn of the Century, 1900-1904-Mark Sullivan ($5). Yesterday catalogued with all its pomps and properties...
...furlong race pulled a tendon in the broad jump and was unable to compete. Miller, because of this, was dropped out of the 220 yard final. F. P. Kane '20 returned a double winner and a record smasher, in two beautiful races. He established a new quarter mile mark of 40 seconds and came back in his second race to nip Wells, the speedy Dartmouth hurdler, as the finish of the 220 yard low hurdles for first honors in 25 seconds. Captain Tibbetts ran away from the field in the two mile run with E. C. Haggerty '27 chasing...