Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cornell will be Yale's mainstay in the sprints, with Treadway, captain of the 1917 freshman team as second man. Cornell won both short dashes in the Princeton meet last spring, and took second in both in the Harvard meet. Wilkie, the star quarter-miler, will be first choice for that event again. Davis has also shown up well at this distance. Yale is seriously handicapped in the half-mile event, for Brown, captain of the 1914 team and one of the best collegiate half-milers, has been operated upon for appendicitis, and it is doubtful whether...
...novel innovations have been added to the list of events on the program of the annual spring relay tournament of the University of Pennsylvania. They are in the form of relay races, but in the first one the man who runs first will cover a quarter of a mile, the second man a half-mile, the third, three-quarters of a mile, and the last a mile, while in the other race the first two men will run a furlong each, the third a quarter-mile, and the fourth a half-mile. These events have been added in order...
There will also be a new relay championship event, one man to run a quarter-mile, the next a half-mile, the next three-quarters of a mile and the last a mile...
...play. Straight football was productive of gains for both teams, practically no open play being in evidence throughout the contest. Again in the fourth period the heavier team scored on a blocked punt and the subsequent recovery of the ball. A succession of hard line plunges in the last quarter resulted in Carlisle's single touchdown. Captain Hamilton Fish '10, H. B. Gardner '13, p. Grant '08, and Snow of Dartmouth excelled for the All-Stars, while F. Broker and Pratt did the best work for the Indian eleven...
...Mahan '16 may play one of the backs, with P. L. Wendell '13, and Philbin of Yale alongside of him. Gardner at quarter is splendidly equipped to direct the work of this extraordinary back field...