Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision to run Captain E. C. Haggerty '28, J. L. Reid '29, and Leslie Flaksman '29, all of the University track team, as pace-makers to Wide followed the failure of the efforts of the H. A. A. to procure outside runners to match strides with the flying Swede...
Crimson Runners May Pace Wide...
...continued efforts of the H. A. A. yesterday to find pace-makers for Wide again proved fruitless. Coach Farrell stated last night to the CRIMSON that the burden of the task of pushing the Swedish runners to a new record would fall on the shoulders of three Harvard undergraduates if the H. A. A. is unable to find competitors outside of the University. The three men are E. C. Haggerty '27, captain of the track team and intercollegiate mile champion, J. L. Reid '29, captain elect of the cross-country team, and Lesile Flaskman...
...three men started from San Antonio over the concrete road to Austin, 89.4 miles away. Cool of dawn gave way to scorching heat of day as the runners loped easily along at a pace that would have frightened a Finn. After covering 30 miles Salido, sickened by fumes of automobiles which lined the road, succumbed to cramps; Zafiro and Torres, less sensitive, continued...
Texans were convinced of the Indians' stamina; were interested when the runners took on food and water without slackening pace...