Word: meeting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...games are taking on the aspect of an Olympic meet, with every allied nation presenting a notable array of stars. The American Expeditionary Force organization numbers among its athletes such well-known track men as Lieut. Harry Worthington of Dartmouth, three times national and intercollegiate broad jump champion; Pat Ryan, holder of five world's records in the hammer-throw; F. C. Thompson, all-round athletic champion of the A. A. U.; and Lieut. P. R. Withington '12, former University track captain and two-mile champion...
...feature of the meet will be a ten-team 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...
...intercollegiate finals the University is again host today to more than six hundred athletes representing twenty-two American colleges. When we consider that a few months ago college athletic systems were totally disorganized, and that the men themselves were in military service, the present meet is a striking evidence of the virility of intercollegiate athletics...
...forty-two annual intercollegiate track and field meets which have been held under the auspices of the I. C. A. A. A. A. since 1876, the University, with thirteen victories to its credit, has won more times than any other college. Yale is second with nine wins, Cornell and Pennsylvania tied for third with eight each, Columbia fifth with three, and Princeton, with only one victory, is the only other college to have won an intercollegiate meet...