Word: relay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four-mile relay team will start off the season's schedule when it enters the relay meet at Concord on April 19. It will be the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Lexington and Concord and it is possible that the University will have a look at the Dartmouth runners, who are schedule to compete in the affair. Six days later the relay men will journey to the Penn Relays for April 24 and 25 accompanied by a few individual entrants in other events...
...colleges had mighty men in her service. There was Albert ("Truck") Miller, 200-pound sprinter ; Jeff Fletcher, high-hurdle star; "Soapy" Watters, Olympic middle-distance competitor; Bill Tibbetts, sturdy two-miler. Nevertheless, Emerson Norton, Georgetowner, performed ably in two events (pole vault, running high jump) ; the Georgetown two-mile relay team broke the world's indoor record (time: 7 min., 41 6-10 sec.) ; her one-mile relay team took first place. Harvard was vanquished. Nelson B. Sherrill of Pennsylvania broke the world's record for the indoor pole vault with a miraculous leap of 13 feet...
Furthermore, Georgetown's relay teams will be hard to beat. Swinburne, Herlihy, Burgess, present national 440-yard champion, and Captain Kinnaly for the one-mile team: and Gegon, Brooks, Marsters and Holen for the two-mile relay, with one exception the same Georgetown team that holds the world's record of 7 minutes 47 seconds, are expected to add heavily to the Washington college's total...
...recommendation of the Track Advisory Committee and the captain of the team, it was decided to award the major track "H" to E. C. Haggerty '27 "for meritorious performance in the winning of the two-mile relay race against Yale at the B. A. A. meet on January 31." The "H" was not formally awarded to the other members of the team who have already won their letters...
...mile relay team will certainly be made up of Allen, Rogers, Lundell and Kane, as Robb injured his ankle in the triangular meet. The two-mile team, Barker, Kobes, Cutcheon and Chapin, have a difficult task before them. The team of Georgetown record holders will run intact, and the Boston College team which broke the world's record at the Penn Relay Carnival last spring will run with but one change, that of McCloskey for Cavanaugh, a change, it is said, for the better...