Word: miler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ranking with Captain Erhard among the hopeful harriers is two miler Bill Wright. Jaakko has hopes for Wright as a successful cross country man. On the track last year he showed steady improvement. Though earlier in the season he steadily trailed Henry Marcy in the long run he gradually drew up to Marcy and finally claimed the lead. Roswell Brayton is a man who may come into the light this year. Whereas Erhard and Wright are coming into their last year of college and intercollegiate competition, Brayton has the advantage of being only a Junior this year...
Less can be said about a Freshman team even than the Varsity. Most preparatory schools do not have cross country, and jaakko must take the milers and half milers that appear and try to adjust them to the longer distance. The Freshman prospects Jaakko declares are pretty good, but there is a lack of experienced distance men that have the stamina to run the cross country distance. Brightest prospect perhaps is C. H. Oldfather, a miler from Hotchkiss. Jaakko also states that Robert Russell, a former Exeter half-miler, has the build for a longer distance man, and something...
Generally rated the world's No. 1 quarter-miler, Godfrey Brown runs effortlessly, prefers to beat the other fellows and let the records go hang. After dashing the quarter in safe but cool time, hands flopping at his sides, President Brown loped into the half unconcernedly behind Cornell's John Meaden, sprinted easily down the homestretch, passed him and won by 10 yds. for a new meet record (i 152.2), almost three seconds short of the world mark. Thus completed was Oxford-Cambridge's first clean sweep on U. S. soil. The apple-cheeked, bespectacled, India-born...
Born. To Glenn Cunningham, 27, world's fastest miler, and Mrs. Margaret Speir Cunningham: a daughter; in Newton, Kans...
...Northrop, Harvard's red-headed miler, will be out of this Saturday's Heptagonal Meet in the Stadium with measles...