Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Decide Paddock's Standing...
...will make the principal speech on this topic. The advisability of sponsoring the visit to this country of a delegation of European college men will be considered. The object of the visit is to make a study of American college athletics. The case of the eligibility of C. W. Paddock, world's champion sprinter, will also be investigated. Paddock has been declared by the Amateur Athletic Association to be ineligible to represent the United States in the Paris Olympic Games...
President Prout announced that Charles W. Paddock would probably be reinstated in the august favor of the A. A. U. in time to do the dashes for America in the Olympic Games in Paris next Summer...
...Daddy Franklin", he writes, "knew what he was about, the sharp little man. He set up the first dummy American . . . He made himself a list of virtues which he trotted inside like a grey nag in a paddock". He addresses the shade of Crevecoeur with this wagging finger: "Hector St. John, you have lied to me. You lied even more scurrilously to yourself. Hector St. John, you are an emotional liar". Fenimore Cooper felt himself superior to the bourgoise but would not admit it, and therefore lied. "The blue-eyed darling Nathaniel (Hawthorne) knew disagreeable things in his inner soul...
...rudimentary instruction, as I shall attempt only to give the men a line on starts and proper running positions, for use in spring work." In 1919, Coach Teschner took part in the Inter-Allied games in Paris. In the two dashes he took second, being headed by Paddock in both races. He also ran anchor on the two victorious United States relay teams. He holds the College record in the 100 yard dash jointly with W. A. Shick '05, the time being 9 4-5 seconds...