Word: mile
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Carroll 1917 has been elected captain of the Michigan track team for next year. He won third place in the mile at the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet at Philadelphia last year, and this year in the Stadium finished second to L. V. Windangle, of Cornell, his time being 4 minutes, 16 2-5 seconds...
...Conn., June 6. -- Perhaps the most important part of today's practice of the University and Freshman crews at Red Top took place when the crews had finished their two mile paddle. Coach Guy Nickalls and Abbot of the Yale camp were coming down-stream in a pair-oar, alongside of whom was the "Pup" containing Coaches Haines and Herrick and several Crimson oarsmen. Suddenly a young deer was spied swimming in the water, and both the University and Yale contingents started out in hot pursuit...
...University and Freshman oarsmen are all in excellent shape. The order in both boats remained the same in today's workout as yesterday. The practice consisted of a two-mile row, taking an easy stroke for the whole distance, and a number of practice starts. The eight was consistently good in getting away in shape in the starts...
...There may be something in all this, probably is, but the whole story is by no means accounted for in this way. A great part of the lack of success has been inability properly to drive the boat. One hears a lot of talk about sprinting crews and four-mile crews, but the fact remains that in the two-mile race the crew is coached to give its all, just as is the case in a four-mile race. A crew can give only so much; it gives it quicker in the two-mile route, that...
...Again the fact that very few colleges have four-mile courses on their home waters makes it necessary for them to spend considerable time away from home at such places as Poughkeepsie or New London; this involves the maintenance of an extensive and expensive establishment, which becomes a heavy drain on the general athletic treasury, and encourages the arrangement of 'profitable' football schedules to help defray the expenses of the crews. We believe it to be the best interests of intercollegiate boating to encourage a greater number of short races in each season between the various rowing colleges, these races...