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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yard event will be held for the forty-ninth time. The event was held for the first time in 1877, one year after the title meet was inaugurated. It will be interesting to observe whether a span of thirty years will pass without witnessing the lowering of the "220" record. Frankly, such a development would not surprise...
...athletic records can point to a successful repulse of all assaults over a stretch of years that extends back to the nineteenth century. Yet that is the case with the 220 yard dash at the I. C. A. A. A. A. championships, for the present mark of 21 1-5 seconds was made in 1896 by B. J. Wefers of Georgetown. Only two men, R. C. Craig of Michigan, and D. F. Lippincott of the University of Pennsylvania, have succeeded in equalling this record in the 28 meets which have been held since Wefers broke the best previous mark...
Captain Henry Russell of Cornell will enter this year's meet as the defending champion, and naturally will be rated as a likely repeater after the form he showed in the indoor 70 yard championship. Russell was two-tenths of a second away from Wefer's record last year, but so were Bill Schick of Harvard in 1904 and Reidpath in 1912 and Woodring...
...American colleges deserve the greatest praise for their marvelous progress in javelin throwing. The event was not added to the Intercollegiate championship program until 1922, but the present record made by C. H. Storrs of Yale is 199 feet, 1 inch, a mark which compares very favorably with the Olympic record of 215 feet 9 3-4 inches which Jonni Myyra of Finished established...
...title has remained in the east and it will not surprise me if some easterner is victorious again this year. Take the victory of the Leyden of Maine in the Penn Relays as an example. He cleared more than 195 feet, within an arms reach of the present Intercollegiate record. When a man can make such a throw in mid-April it is impossible to estimate what to expect of him when the competition begins in the big meet of the year...