Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Japan's Yoshaiki Unetani was a slight favorite in yesterday's 73rd annual Boston Marathon; but he ran away from the other competitors to win in the record time of 2:13.49, beating the runner-up by almost four minutes...
With a low total of 13 points, the Harvard sailing team easily outdistanced its nearest competitor, M.I.T. which ran up 32 points...
Dick Benka and Dave Pottetti were both double winners for Harvard. Benka won his specialty, the shot put, with a 52 ft. 81/2 in. toss, and came back to win the discus with a throw of 161 ft. 11 in. Pottetti ran an excellent 9:02.6 to capture the two-mile, after sharing first place honors in the mile with teammates John Heyburn and Tom Spengler in an amazing three-way dead heat...
...miles, but just aimed for breaking four hours. I also wanted to finish in the top half of the field off 900 starters. Never having run for a track team and in fact, never having been much of a jock, I was scared of the other runners. The Herald ran a picture of six members of the Harvard track team preparing for the race. How could I ever beat such professionals...
...several points there were people with water and oranges, and the trick was to grab their offerings as you ran by without breaking strike. They were nice people. And it was so nice to have cars pretty much cleared from the route...