Word: nurmi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in his life, Paavo Nurmi tried the cinders of the Harvard track last night, and after his short workout, expressed nothing but admiration for the setting of his great try for a new mile record this evening. He appeared about 7 o'clock last night, and went over the track thoroughly, limbering up his muscles and making himself familiar with the track...
Before the small band of coaches and track enthusiasts who stayed until almost dusk on the chance that the great Finn might come for a trial run, Nurmi jogged around the track, seemingly entirely pleased with the preparations that have been made for his appearance...
Those members and graduates of the University who did not receive their tickets yesterday morning for the Nurmi race tomorrow will be unable to witness the game except from the public stands, it was announced by the H. A. A. ticket office last night. The tickets for the reserved sections, which constitute a little less than one half of the Stadium capacity, were all given out before 1 o'clock yesterday to a line of applicants which did not slacken for four hours...
...Finnish distance ace will arrive this evening at about 6 o'clock and will be met by Coach Mikkola of the University track team, who was Nurmi's coach for the Olympic races of 1924. It is probable that Nurmi will be the guest of Coach Mikkola while in Cambridge...
...injustice done to Paavo Nurmi has recently bear emphasized by the demand of one Irving Small, an, "amateur" hockey player and member of the American Olympic team, for his past salary, amounting to the sum of one thousand dollars. Amateur hockey has slipped so far in America that it puts any accusation of professionalism, directed against an individual foreigner, in almost a ludicrous light. Nurmi can scarcely fail to realize this...