Word: meets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spiked shoes since the great Sydney Wooderson. Another Oxford lad, Nick Stacey, ran off with the 100-and 220-yd. dashes and Teammate Philip Morgan took the twomile. But in the hurdles and field events, where professional coaching pays off, the coach-less Britons flopped. They lost the meet...
Starting at 5 p.m., the 13-event meet is scheduled to be run off in an hour and a half. This is the first post-war renewal of the traditional series, which began in 1899. Each team has won seven times, with Oxford-Cambridge taking the last three meets...
...basis of its showing Saturday at Princeton, the British team figures to make Monday's meet close. Oxford-Cambridge took the 100, 220, mile and two-mile against Princeton-Cornell, and showed well in the broad jump...
...least three meet records will be jeopardized Monday in the Stadium. Bannister and Wade will be shooting for the 4:12.6 mile mark Jack Lovelock established in 1933; Jim Fuchs seems sure to set a new record in the 16-pound shot; and George Appel may break the pole vault record...
Perhaps the greatest performance in the series was Edwin Gourdin's world record-breaking broad jump of 25 feet, 3 inches at the Stadium in 1921. Gourdin, a Harvard senior, thus became the first man in history to jump 25 feet. That mark still stands as the meet and Harvard record...