Word: relay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wireless Club was founded in 1910, with Professor Pierce '99, director of the Cruft Laboratory, as permanent president. In 1916 the club became affiliated with the American Radio Relay League, and maintained a wireless relay service. At this time the club had a membership of about 60 men, but, owing to the declaration of war in 1917, it was necessary to disband...
...entered in the quarter and half-mile events. The half-mile should be one of the team's strong points next year because of its representatives in O'Connell, who won the event in the Intercollegiates this year; Costigam, Duggan, Douglass, and Goddwin, who won over Yale in the relay race; and B. Wharton '22, one of the two individual stars of the Freshman team...
...feature of the meet will be a ten-team relay race from Chateau-Thierry to Paris. Each team will be composed of twenty-five men who will run three miles apiece. The harriers will carry a message to President Wilson by a soldier who took part in the battle of Chateau-Thierry. Should this event prove successful, the marathon race will be held annually...
Landon, who won the high jump at the Penn. Relay Carnival with a leap of six feet, will be a strong contender for that event in the coming meets. Ford, Sweeney, and Parker, in the pole vault, compose a trio all of whom have been clearing the bar at twelve feet. Ford and Sweeney have done even a trifle better than that in practice. Ford, Reche, and Cowles have been clearing twenty feet in the broad jump, Ford having reaped twenty-two feet in a practice trial. With Captain Jim Braden, of the Eli team, putting the short forty...
...Yale's strength depends on the physical condition of Harvey Reed, the mile runner, and Walter Schleiter, the sprinter, both of whom have been slightly out of form this season. Reed, who returned from military service only a month ago, was unable to take part in the Penn. Relay Carnival, and Johnny Mack, the Eli coach, fears that he will not regain sufficient physical form this year to be counted on as a point winner. During his freshman year, Reed, who came to Yale from Mercersberg as a preparatory school record breaker, reeled off a mile in 4 minutes...