Word: relay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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College athletes last week congregated in two places?westerners in Des Moines, Ia., for the annual Drake Relay Carnival; easterners on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, for the annual Penn Relays. The latter meet was notable for no world's records. Yale took two championships? the half-mile varsity and one-mile freshman relays. Columbia won the two-mile varsity relay. Anthony J. Plansky, herculean Georgetown Universityite, retained his decathlon championship with a new meet record of 7,169.16 points for the ten events?100-meter dash, shot-put, high jump, broad jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole...
...glowed a chilly yellow against the trampled snow. In his head phones, Waskey could distinguish a thin piping note above the crackling static?a note that said another wireless operator back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and commanded by Captain George H. Wilkins, Australian-born soldier of fortune...
Another team which will be rated high when the athletes take the track tonight will be 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...
...Mile Relay--Broome, Lundell, Rogars, Kane, O'Neil, Dunn...
...Mile Relay--Luttman, Watters, Tibbetts, Haggerty, Hall...