Word: nip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relay race Maryland won in hollow fashion from the Crimson quartet. For three-quarters of the mile distance the Harvard runners held their own with the southerners, but on the last lap, while running a nip-and-tuck race and making a strong bid for victory, O'Neil, the Crimson anchor man, tripped and fell. The fourth Maryland flier aped on to an easy...
...stage. One man will vote for John P. O'Doe because "he's really a good scout, has made a little money and wants the wife's picture in the papers. You can't blame him." Another votes for Peter P. Pringle, Esq., because "he has his little nip with the boys now and then; a man who will get us drinks if he can Good old Pete!" A third may rationalize a trifle. "I can't vote for Oscar T. Newton center: he's a Republican." Thus speaks the voice of the people...
...famous Tattenham Corner a brown mongrel ran out on the track, tried to nip Colorado's heels. British newspapermen made much of this incident, but it is not likely that it had anything to do with the result of the race. Coronach's speed needed no mongrel help...
...unable to compete. Miller, because of this, was dropped out of the 220 yard final. F. P. Kane '20 returned a double winner and a record smasher, in two beautiful races. He established a new quarter mile mark of 40 seconds and came back in his second race to nip Wells, the speedy Dartmouth hurdler, as the finish of the 220 yard low hurdles for first honors in 25 seconds. Captain Tibbetts ran away from the field in the two mile run with E. C. Haggerty '27 chasing him all the way to the tape, to smash his own record...
Haverford and Princeton are engaged in a nip and tuck race for the league leadership, while the University and Yale are both trying to force each other to accept the position at the bottom of the ladder...