Word: maxey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...race never has been included in the intercollegiate championships, but if I had an opportunity to choose an all-time one-mile relay team, picking the men on the basis of speed, experience, and reliability, I would choose the four men in this order: J. E. Meredith of Pennsylvania. Maxey W. Long of Columbia, Frank J. Shea of Pittsburgh and Charles D. Reidpath of Syracuse. All of these men have won I.C.A.A.A.A. titles, and to my way of thinking they would be from seven to ten yards faster than any combination of runners in the past 25 years...
...spite of the fact that Maxey Long is the officially accredited holder of the world's record for the quarter mile, in which he was timed in 47 seconds fiat, in my opinion a better performance was made in 1915 by James E. Meredith at the National Championship in San Francisco in the Senior 440 yards, in which he equalled Long's mark, but the record was not allowed...