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...recent victory of the University of Illinois in the Western Conference indoor championship indicates this college will come East with at least three relay teams of high standard. Illinois has without doubt one of the strongest track teams in the country at present. Wharton, a two-miler, and Alberts, who jumped 6 feet, 4-18 inches at the Western Conference indoor meet, are two stars of great ability. Osborne another high-jumper will be among those who should give Landon of Yale, intercollegiate and Olympic champion, a hard tussle...
...performances in school and college mean anything. When Bingham entered Exeter in 1908 he had never had any running experience, but he was determined that he would become a runner, and when he graduated it was with the reputation of being the greatest half-miler Exeter had ever produced. During his last year at school, when he was captain of the track team, he won the Harvard, Yale and Exeter interscholastic half-mile runs. In the Harvard Interscholastic Meet of 1912 he established the interscholastic record for the half-mile of 1 minute 59 seconds, a record which still stands...
...Guaranty Games on Saturday were held yesterday afternoon, and the final trials will be held this afternoon, after which the men who are to run will be picked. The team, which is composed of a 220-yard man, a 440-yard man, a half-miler, and a one-mile runner, will run against similar teams from Princeton and Columbia, and probably Yale and Iowa State...
Little is known about the comparative strength of either of these teams. The University of Pennsylvania relay team, with Earl Eby, national champion half-miler and Olympic star, running anchor, was able to defeat the Dartmouth relay team, captained by Earl Thompson, by a wide margain at the B. A. A. games last Saturday...
...made the All-America team are included in the annual All-American College team of 17 athletes, as just announced by Secretary F. W. Rubien of the A. A. U. Charles W. Paddock, the sprinter from the University of Southern California; Hallock H. Brown of Williams, the championship two-miler; R. W. Landon, Yale's high-jumper, and Earl Thompson of Dartmouth, winner of the 120-yard hurdles for Canada, are the Olympic winners who have won places and who, together with Earl Eby of the U. of P., and several others from the West, form the nucleus...