Word: relay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...games on February 2, the Crimson relay team defeated Yale by nearly half a lap in the yearly two-mile race. And in the one mile relay at the Intercollegiates, last Saturday, an untried Harvard team entered against a score of crack college teams, finished in second place, being beaten by only a fraction of an inch by the famous Yale quartet in close to world's record time...
...three open meets held by the B. A. A., the Knights of Columbus, and the American Legion, University entrants numbered many among the medal winners on each occasion. But in the intercollegiates on Saturday, the Crimson made a showing which, but for the brilliant performance of the relay team, would have been discreditable. For of all the men who had been counted on before the meet as possible point winners, only one succeeded in scoring. R. D. Gerould, '24, who tied with several others for second place in the high jump...
...club has offered to relay, free of charge, messages mailed to them at Westmorley Court, to any part of the United States, Canada, or Europe...
...Berglund, still an inexperienced weight thrower, fouled in a throw of 48 feet which would have brought him second place. Gerould, however, with his jump of five feet ten in the high jump, which netted 1 1-9 points, was the only man besides those on the relay team to score, bringing the University's total for the meet to 5 1-9 points
...performance of the University relay team was particularly creditable. Some time ago, Coach Farrell considered not entering a team for the one-mile relay: his runners were, on the whole, inexperienced in intercollegiate competition, and the opposing teams of Yale, Georgetown, and Boston College were considered the strongest in history. But in the one-mile relay race on Saturday, the four Crimson runners, Brooks, Robb, Kane and Allen, startled the track coaches by keeping well at the head of the field throughout the race, and finally, thanks to Allen's phenomenal running as anchor man for the University, by finishing...