Word: mile
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Pennsylvania hung up a new world's record when it won the sprint medley relay race in 3 minutes 28 3-5 seconds. Meredith, captain of the Pennsylvania team and holder of several world's records, stepped the last relay, the half-mile, in 1 minute 54 4-5 seconds, which is within 1 2-5 seconds of the intercollegiate record and exceptionally fast considering the condition of the track...
...chief significance of the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival which starts today is that it may break the present tie between Harvard and Pennsylvania honors in the mile relay, each of which has won the event five times. Not only will it give a general impression of the relative strength of colleges which will compete later in the Intercollegiates, but it will confirm or deny the feasibility of predictions which have been made in track circles regarding the probable outcome of individual events in coming dual meets...
...yards, the third 440 yards and the fourth 880 yards. The best relay teams in the country will compete in this event as well as in the distance medley, where the first man runs a quarter, the second a half, the third three-fourths of a mile, and the anchor man a mile. Last year these two races were won in record time and this year, from the condition of the contestants, it would seem that the times would be lowered still more. As these events are considered next in importance to the one-mile college relay race championship...
Several fields on Long Island suitable for aeroplane instruction and practice are now under consideration. One of these is one mile in length by one-half mile in width...
...mile relay championships, Yale is the favorite with the same strong team which defeated nearly every team that was met last winter. Princeton, who won the event last year, setting up a new college record of 7 minutes 55 3-5 seconds, has entered a good team but one not as fast as last spring's record-breaking one. Pennsylvania and Michigan have teams fully capable of keeping in front...