Word: miler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amateur Athletic Union sent out some invitations with 5? stamps on them. There were five of them, addressed to the governing athletic bodies of Germany, France, Italy, England and Finland, asking 14 of the greatest runners in Europe to run in the U. S. this winter. Half-miler Tavernari and long-legged Hurdler Facelli of Italy, Joachim Buchner and Harry Storz, the German quarter-milers, and Sprinter Eldracher were asked. Among Finns, the invitations went to Harry Larva and Toivo Loukola, but not, for some reason, to Paavo Nurmi who, tinkering with an old automobile in his machine-shop...
David Cobb '31, who won the mile in the Harvard and Yale--Cambridge and Oxford meet and who is the Crimson's best miler, is being handicapped by an injury received during the cross country season. A leg muscle, pulled in practice, kept him out of the Yale meet and the I. C. A. A. A. A. contest...
Harvard's star half-miler of several years back, J. N. Watters, was quite naturally called "Soapy" ever since his Exeter days, and every man with a name like Rhodes might just as well be christened "Dusty" at birth by his parents. All freely given names are not so obvious as these two, however. Bill McGeehan, probably the dean of American nicknamers, has almost single-handed run what he calls the cauliflower industry into the ground with his nicknames and epithets. "Horizontal" Joe Beckett, Phil Scott, the Leaning Tower of London, Signor Campolo, the Gyrating Gyraffe of the Andes...
...examinations, and in addition, several days in which to get back into condition. Several track authorities picked Reid to win the race last Saturday, and Coach E. L. Farrell declared last evening that Lermond will have a hard battle to break the tape ahead of the star Crimson miler in the race this week...
...picked to wear the University colors at the annual Knights of Columbus games which will be held in Boston a week from tonight. Captain J. L. Reid '29, who has been entered in the Curley Mile, is expected to place in that event, while Leslie Flaksman '29, star two miler, should be among the leaders in his event, according to Coach Farrell. Representatives of the University will be entered in many of the other events...