Word: medley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season, gave one of his best all-round performances Saturday. Not only did he place third in the broad jump behind B.U.'s Bernie Bruce and Yale's Dick Goss, but he ran the third leg on the winning shuttle hurdles relay; a 220 for the first place sprint medley team; and opening leg on the winning mile relay. He also competed in the high jump and 440 relay...
...runner for the Crimson was sophomore Phil Williams. Williams, who had run a 4:25 mile as a freshman, almost personally won the four-mile relay with a very good second leg, and then came back to run an unofficial 3:15 for the three quarters in the distance medley. His effort put the Crimson ahead, but Ken Wilson's mile was only second-best to Rhode Island...
...Renny Little in the mile relay with a 50 flat quarter; Art Siler with a second place in the discus throw; Dave McLean, Don French, and Al Wills with good early season miles in the four mile relay; and Dick Wharton with a strong 880 anchor in the sprint medley relay...
...sleep. This time, in an earnest effort to relax, she read a few chapters of her favorite book: Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (see RELIGION). Refreshed, Shelley sprinted to the 100-yd. title, and a short half-hour later she won the 400-yd. medley championship as well...
Last week, Shelley went on to take the 250-yd. freestyle and help her teammates to the 400-yd. medley relay title. Army Lt. Betty Mullen, oldest of the Reed girls and a freestyle specialist before she swam for Tinkham, set a sure world record in the 100-yd. butterfly (1:05.4). With the whole team pitching in, the Walter Reed Swim piled up 95 points for their third championship in a row. Marveled a rival coach: "A crazy bunch of churning machines...