Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thumper Hank Johnston released a from chart on the Harvard-Yale, Oxford-Cambridge track teams yesterday, and according to the statistics, the Americans should win when the two squads renew their traditional series in the Stadium a week from Monday...
More will be known about the capabilities of the Oxford-Cambridge team after its meet today at Princeton, where it goes against a combined Princeton, Cornell squad. Varsity Coach Jaakko Mikkola predicts this will be a close meet, as will the one here next week. "The Englishmen are good," he pointed out yesterday. Jaakko singled out quarter miler Angus Scott, sprinter John Wilkinson, and miler Roger Bannister as particularly outstanding...
Track--10 points in indoor and outdoor season combined will get a major track 14. Relay points are divided, and either a win in the Ivy League meet, or a place in the N.C.A.A. or IC4A meets, or participation in the Harvard-Yale Oxford-Cambridge meet will win a major H. All point winners of championship track teams receive major H's. Yale meet counts double...
Charlie Durakis, the freshman who never hurdled before coming to Harvard, will represent the Americans in the low hurdles, against Brooks of Cambridge and Williams of Oxford. The high hurdles will see a fight between Leonard Philips of Yale against Crimes, formally of Yale who will run for the British. He has run the event in 15:5.6. Phillips took the Eli-Crimson meet...
...last Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale meet was held in England in 1939, when the British whipped the combined American team 9 to 3. Howie Mendel was the only Crimson winner, setting a meet record of 47 feet, 11 inches in the 16 pound shot