Word: outran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where is the center of this thing? A man who learned how fast his legs could move because as a boy he outran cops in Harlem, who worked out in cordovan shoes on the F.D.R. Drive because his father was a cobbler and cordovans last? Does one watch the Olympics to see a spectacle of individuals? A festival of nerve? Perhaps something collective as well. Something. America bursts into song at the torch relay, and 7 million tickets go on sale...
...Yale squad was quick to pay back in kind however as it outran Harvard in the mile relay by 2,43 seconds, finishing in 3:54.59. But when the Crimson's Eva Anderson. Kate Wiley and Pattricia and Grace deFries took command of the two-mile relay Yale and Princeton were left to fight for second place. The Harvard track sters completed the rut in a speedy...
Another harrier on the ball Saturday was Kathy Good, who bettered her second-place finish in a tough 3000-meter race, when she outran all competition in the subsequent 500-meter contest in a rapid...
...final score did not reflect the degree by which Harvard outran, outpassed, and outplayed it opponent. Crimson Coach Jape Shattuck was pleased with what he called "the good, consistent play" of his squad. "We had three off the woodwork [goalpost], so the game wasn't as close as it looked," he said...
...pitch ("I'd better not pitch the ball or they'd fight over it," he figured), he just turned the other way, ran around right end, escaped a near tackle by safety Joe Harvey, found rough going on the right side of the field, turned back the other way, outran three more Tigers and, while he was at it, scored a touchdown...