Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fall Cox broke Tibbetts' cross country record, and is considered the strongest entry in the two mile race. However Captain Haggerty won two first places in last week's meet and will start in a confident mood...
...With a record of four games won and one defeat, the 1930 quintet leads the Class League, with Junior, Senior and Sophomore teams following in that order...
...sells his body and soul into bondage. From the first day, the shades of the prison house on 14 Plympton Street infold him, and for the remainder of his candidacy, he is seen no more by his roommates, save in the early morning hours, when he crashes out to record his midnight inspirations in the scoop book, and late at night when he staggers back with dishevelled half and ink stained fingers after the last sheet of copy has dropped into the insatiable basket. During the interviewing period, rumor has it, he spends his time dashing from University Hall...
...Bingham's report, while it record progress and promises further development, leaves much unsaid which must be said sooner or later. It does not quite penetrate to the fundamentals of the athletic problem. Because it comes from the man upon whom Harvard has rightly staked the solution of that problem it is disappointing judged by any other standard than that of a somewhat over cautions step by step advance...
Last week in New York Sabin Carr, of Yale University, rushed at a thin strip of wood suspended horizontally 13 ft. 9¼ in. from the floor, vaulted over it. In so doing he had broken the world's record for indoor pole-vaulting, 13 ft. 8¼ in., held by Charles Hoff, doubtful amateur of Norway. Excited gentlemen in dinner jackets rushed forward, raised the stick to a height of 14 ft. ¼ in., urged Sabin Carr to break the outdoor record (13 ft. 11¼ in., also held by Mr. Hoff). Mr. Carr tried, could not oblige...