Word: pace
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Andrews '06 with a handicap of 20 yards, kept the lead to the end. R. W. Kelso '04, with 10 yards, soon worked up to second place and remained there throughout the race. H. M. Channing 2L., who ran from scratch, ran well until in the stretch where the pace began to tell on him. He went into third place, however, about 75 yards from the tape...
...Yale trio in the mile proved too strong and Harvard failed to score. Jacobus and Stevens alternated in making the pace during the first half, which was run in 2.17. At the middle of the third lap Teel took the lead and though Grew made a plucky try to pass him on the last lap he won out by several yards. Grew held second place until within forty yards of the tape when Jacobus and Stevens passed him and took second and third respectively. The time, 4.33 1-5, was the fastest Teel has ever made and was considerably better...
...winning the two-mile, however, Franchot increased Yale's score. Before the end of the first half-mile He took the pace and steadily increased his lead until at the end of the mile and a half he was thirty yards ahead of Bumstead and forty yards ahead of Mills. From this time on Mills began to catch up and at the beginning of the last lap had passed Bumstead and was only thirty yards back of Franchot. This lead was cut down somewhat before the finish but Franchot won easily in 10 minutes. Mills took second place, fifty yards...
...mile run W. A. Colwell 1G., who won the event in the University games, entered in order to pace the men, although disqualified for a place. Colwell and E. W. Mills '02 started off in the lead, kept continually drawing away from the bunch and finished a good quarter of a lap ahead. In spite of the fast pace set by Colwell, Mills made a good spurt at the finish...
...mile run held Thursday morning to determine the four-mile relay team was characterized by the fast pace maintained throughout the race. In the last lap J. C. Grew '02 spurted in the stretch and finished first. J. W. Foster '03 came in second, only a few feet behind the winner. E.W. Mills '02 and F. S. Buffum '04 finished some distance behind Grew and Foster and obtained respectively third and fourth places. The time was 4 minutes, 44 seconds...