Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no athletic team in the history of University sports that can boast of a record equal to that which the Crimson squash racquets team now holds. With three state and two national championships tucked safely beneath its belt, the team bids fair to continue its brilliant record next year...
...Hoff, with a vaulting pole in his hand, paced down a runway in Madison Square Garden. Already he had cleared the bar at 11 ft., 11 ft. 6 in., 12 ft., 12 ft. 6 in., and it had been announced that he would try for a super-world's record of 13 ft. 6 in. He took one stride, two strides on the runway, then came a splintering crash, he lurched sideways, went sprawling into the landing pit. A board had broken under his foot. He arose, limped to a bench. A masseur got to work on his ankle...
...Hubbard needs to be out of doors to run well. He does not feel free or limber under a roof. His great black legs also prefer spikes and a cinder track to rubber sneakers and a smooth armory floor. Yet Mr. Hubbard, who holds the world's broad-jump record, won the 50-yard dash, finished second in the low hurdles, and rounded off his day by sprinting 65 yards in 6 4/5 seconds breaking a world's record* that has stood for 18 years...
...have always had professors enough teaching history as a dead record: but men like Albert Bushnell Hart, who relate it to the events of today and tomorrow, are too rare. Prof Hart's position as a dean of his profession has been recognized ever since he completed his editorship of the greatest co-operative history of the United States yet written, the American Nation Series. His own list of historical works is creditable. But it is the arena where history is in the making that has most attracted him. It it noteworthy that most of his titles deal with contemporary...
...Boston College, with a nucleus of Hussey. Sophomore dash star, a two mile relay team which is reputed to be made up of four men who can average two or three seconds under the two minute mark for the half mile, and Murphy, a hurdler who has an imposing record in the national Junior and Senior A. A. U. contests last spring...