Word: michigan
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...Friday and Saturday, was won by Cornell University with 34 points. Pennsylvania with 29 1-2 points was second, Yale with 22 third, and Harvard with 17 1-2 points barely won fourth place over Dart-mouth's score of 17 points. The remaining points were distributed as follows: Michigan, 6; Swarthmore, 6; Princeton, 4; Columbia, 4; and Syracuse...
...preliminary trials on Friday the University team qualified 14 men as against 16 from Yale, 11 from Cornell, 11 from Pennsylvania, 8 from Dartmouth, 7 from Princeton, 3 from Michigan, 2 from Swarthmore and 1 each from New York University, Fordham, Amherst, Columbia and Syracuse. The most remarkable feature of the trials was the equaling of the world's record of 15 1-5 seconds in the 120-yard hurdle race by Shaw of Dartmouth, thereby breaking Kraenzlein's intercollegiate record of 15 2-5 seconds. In the pole-vault Dray, Gilbert, and Nelson of Yale and Cook of Cornell...
Harvard's strength in the meet was unexpected, as was the poor showing of Michigan, which scored only two second places, Heath in the broad jump and Rowe in the mile. Michigan's weakness was largely caused by the failure of her two-mile runners, Dull and May, to secure places. They miscalculated the number of laps they had run, because of the accidental falling of the bell at the beginning of the seventh lap, which made them believe they were on the last round. Rowe of Michigan showed weakness in the mile, allowing Halstead of Cornell to pass...
...records broken. Captain W. R. Dray of Yale established a new world's record of 12 feet, 6 1-2 inches in the pole-vault, an inch better than his previous world's record made in the Harvard-Yale dual meet at New Haven last year. The University of Michigan won the two-mile relay championship in 8 minutes, 4 2-5 seconds, a new collegiate record...
Cambridge defeated Oxford in the annual track meet held on Saturday, winning six out of ten events. A. M. Stevens, Rhodes scholar at Oxford from Connecticut won the hammer-throw, and L. C. Hull, Rhodes scholar at Oxford from Michigan was second in the 100-yard dash...