Word: mile
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University's representatives in the eighth annual indoor carnival held under the auspices of the Meadowbrook Club at Philadelphia Saturday night won the mile intercollegiate relay, took third place in the mile handicap run, and a fourth place in the pole vault. In the relay race the team won the intercollegiate championship against Holy Cross, Princeton, Cornell, and Pennsylvania in the fast time of three minutes 26 and 3-5 seconds. This time is within one and one-fifth seconds of the world's record, and is one-fifth second slower than the time made by the team...
...world's indoor records were broken by the competitors in the races. Captain Overton of Yale broke the indoor record of four minutes 18 and 1-5 seconds in winning the mile race in four minutes 16 seconds, and W. T. Hobbs of Dartmouth lowered by one-fifth of a second the record for the 50-yard high hurdles, when he covered the distance in six and four-fifths seconds. Overton ran the latter half of his race faster than the first, the time by quarters reading...
...Jaques '11, who is a member of the University track advisory committee, will address all men interested in distance running at the Varsity Club this evening at 7 o'clock. It is especially desired that all men competing in the 220-yard dash, 440-yard run, 880-yard run, mile run, and two-mile run, attend the meeting. The subject will be "The Fine Points of Racing and Training." It is planned by this lecture to correct some of the minor faults which arise through lack of experience and are responsible for the loss of many races...
...team will have two men in H. B. Davis and P. E. Stevenson who have been running especially well at this distance, and they will form a stiff opposition to the quarter-milers of the opposing teams in this spring's meets. Stevenson will also run in the half-mile, and with W. H. Goodwin and J. Nolen, who ran well the past fall on the 1920 cross-country team, will comprise a trio of last men for this distance. Again in the mile run the team has some very promising material. D. J. Duggan, who has had considerable preparatory...
...Bancroft '17, captain of the cross-country team, G. A. King '18, captain of next year's cross-country; R. H. Davison '17, J. Coggeshall '18 and J. D. Hutchinson '19, captain of the 1919 Freshman team, and a runner who has done good work in the mile this winter. These men are effective in both the mile and two mile events...