Word: reider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Pete Reider came in second in the two-mile event, his hopes for a win thwarted by a surprise victory by Cornell's Nat Cravener, who had never won a two-mile race before. The winning time...
...Crimson power events were the two-mile race, in which Dyke Benjamin, Jim Schlaeppi, and captain Pete Reider swept the Indians; the hammer, which Dunc Johnson won with a throw of 154 feet, 8 1/4 inches, with Jim Doty second; the broad jump, with Henry Wente second to Downs; and the pole vault, where Dick Williams won at 11 feet, 6 inches, with Carl Pescosolido second...
Fitzgerald's time, a new freshman record, is especially impressive when compared with the varsity record of 4:16.5, which had stood for 19 years until broken by Reider's 4:11 last year...
Only Dartmouth's weaknesses, especially in the distances, and the varsity's relative depth should enable the Crimson to win. Captain Pete Reider and Bill Thompson should place one-two in the mile, while Reider, Dyke Benjamin, and Jim Schlaeppi should sweep the two-mile...
...Captain Reider, appearing in his last Yale meet, was the unbeatable Reider of old as he won both the mile and the two-mile events. In the former, he outran Eli Jim Wade and romped to an easy win in 4:20.1. In the two-mile, it was Eli John Morrison who shadowed Reider for most of the race only to fall to Reider's finishing kick, which thrilled the large partisan crowd. Morrison was operating under an unusual handicap, however: he had to run the last mile and a quarter minus one shoe...