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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...points and gathering five additional credits in the running events, the University of California track team won Saturday for the second year in succession the intercollegiate championship, rolling up in all 40 1-2 points. The triumph was decisive, Princeton with 31 being the Bears' nearest rival. Leland Stanford won third with 26 1-2, Cornell fourth with 21 1-2, Pennsylvania fifth with 16, and the University sixth with 14. Yale, scoring 8 1-2, was ninth...
...brothers is good at two miles. F. W. Hilles, now a Junior, won this event in the meet against the University last spring at New Haven, while C. D. Hilles was capturing the same event in the Freshman race at Cambridge that day by almost a lap from the nearest Crimson runner...
...teams harassed the masculine element at Cornell. Fortunately, the new sport solves the problem, for a girl can throw the horse-shoe as well as any man. Faculties have long complained of the high costs of athletic teams but horse-shoe pitching Pennsylvanians supply their athletic needs at the nearest smithy. So enthusiastically have the students received the sport that Pennsylvania's "Big Quad" now tinkles with the merry clank of materialized good-luck. A freshman tournament later in the spring is to determine who is the "Champion Freshman Horse-Shoe Pitcher" at Pennsylvania, and keen competition for the title...
...managers' relay, football, defeated hockey with baseball, track, and crew trailing in that order. Although the winners had only a three-man team, so that C. W. Baker '22 had to run in first and last places, they were able to defeat their nearest opponents by several yards due largely to the jostling which H. T. Mason '25 of the crew team, received at the hands of Raoul Pantaleoni '24, running in third place for the baseball managers...
...five line-up an impressive array of former college stars, including representatives of Indian a University, V. M. I., and Franklin and Marshall, with Captain E. H. De Hority 1G.B. of Indiana leading the race for individual honors. The Business School's center doubled the count of his nearest competitor, rolling up eight baskets and three foul tallies for a total of 19 points...