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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman track team lost their first meet of the season to Exeter on Saturday by a score of 66 2-3 points to 40 1-3. The most exciting race was the 440-yard dash, in which W. Willcox, Jr., of the 1917 team equalled the world's interscholastic record of 48 4-5 seconds made by J. E. Meredith, now of Pennsylvania, when he was at Mercersburg Academy. Willcox let M. B. Orr, the interscholastic champion, lead the race for the first 220 yards, and then suddenly passed the latter by a beautiful burst of speed. From then...
...University crew management has decided to hold the annual spring class crew races on Wednesday, May 6. On that afternoon crews picked from the Sophomore, Junior and Senior classes will race over a 1 and 7-8 mile course on the Basin. The crew winning this race will row against a class crew from Yale chosen in a similar manner, on Saturday, May 16. All of the men who row on the winning crew will be allowed to wear their class numerals. To date the make-up of the crews has been shifted almost daily, no regular order having been...
...result of Saturday's race a considerable shift was made in the order of the first two University boats yesterday. Captain Reynolds replaced Saltonstall at bow on crew A, Curtis moving up from crew B to fill his place. Parson replaced Morgan at 4, Gardiner still being away on account of illness. The coxswains were also shifted Sargent moving up to crew A in place of Gallaher who is now coxing the second boat. Several changes were also made in crew B. Meyer went from 3 to 7 filling Curtis' place, and the Middendorfs went from...
Yesterday's Interclass Track Meet was won by the class of 1915 by the narrow margin of 2 1-2 points, (45-42 1-2), over the class of 1914. The Freshmen, with only 3 points, took last place. The most exciting race of the afternoon was the two-mile run, in which R. St. B. Boyd '14 and F. H. Blackman '14 ran a "dual" race, the former winning by inches over the latter, who in turn was about '75 or 100 yards ahead of C. Southworth '15, the next man. In the 440-yard dash W. A. Barron...
...Oxford team, which is entered in the four-mile championship race, was down at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon watching the Interclass Track Meet, and is composed of A. S. N. Jackson, the Olympic 1500 metre champion, N. S. Taber, the Brown Olympic runner and Rhodes Scholar, G. M. Sproule, D. N. Gaussen, and G. N. Robertson...