Word: racetrack
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...late start of the M.I.T. cross country team should be a great handicap to it in the run with the University ten here this afternoon. The first meet for the Tech harriers last Saturday was lost to the University of New Hampshire 31 to 4, over the Durham obstacles racetrack, while the Crimson runners have kept a clean slates...
While the University team was running to an easy victory, the Freshmen were losing heavily to a fast turnout from Arlington High School. The race was an informal one over the new three and one-half mile Freshman track, which starts from the old horse racetrack, following the river away from the Stadium until it crosses the river and reverses along the other bank ending with the University track at the Lars Anderson bridge...
...reasonably sure-, at any rate not 39 ft. affect and over. Probably, with a cricket ball, slightly heavier yet with no more atmosphere resistance, I might have thrown even farther. Field day exercises were held on the old state fair grounds, now Camp Randall, the throw down the level racetrack, on a day devoid of wind, in the presance of a large assemblage. If this record ever has been equaled by amateur or collegian, I never have heard of it. However, unlike young Osler, I never slaughtered a pig with a stone behind the ear, though in boyhood at Baraboo...