Word: relay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who have been lamenting the flagging fortunes of Harvard track teams in recent years, the performance of Coach Farrell's athletes in the Penn Relay Carnival on Saturday marks a turn in the luck of the Crimson trackmen...
...seven men who succeeded in winning places for the Crimson, by far the greatest credit goes to those four who raced through to first place in the four-mile championship relay. It was the first time that the University had won a relay championship over this distance since 1901, and over any distance since 1916. But as the four University milers, Chapin, Tibbetts, Cutcheon, and Watters, romped through the distance to an easy victory over crack teams from Cornell, Columbia, Georgetown, Penn, and B. C., it seemed as if they had been in the habit of pulling down intercollegiate championships...
Philadelphia, April 25.--Coach Farrell's final decision to withdraw his runners from the medley sprint relay at the Penn Relay Carnival today was reached this afternoon shortly before the race began. As a result of this withdrawal the Crimson's only contender in the first-day events was Berglund, the Sophomore hammer thrower, whose heaves in competition today could not win him a place against the veterans who opposed him from Yale, Princeton, and Penn State...
Tomorrow is the day when the remaining Crimson athletes will make their try for the coveted Penn Relay medals. Of the eight events in which the University will be represented, interest most naturally centers around the championship one-mile and four-mile relays...
...mile relay Harvard will have the first opportunity to avenge its hair line liefeat received at the hand of the Yale quartermilers in record time at the indoor intercollegiates in New York this winter...