Word: relay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twenty-ninth Annual Relay Race Carnival of the University of Pennsylvania, in which 15 Crimson track men will compete tomorrow and Saturday, will again be very large, both in the number of entries and in the extent of the interest which has been aroused in it. More than 450 institutions have entered, the events, thus exceeding last year's list of 425. The entries include squads from more than 80 colleges drawn from all parts of the United States, and also, in the feature two mile championship relay, a team from Oxford University, England...
...when an Oxford four mile team won a sensational race by a few inches, and in 1920, when a combined Oxford-Cambridge team appeared in a two mile relay, the English runners established a reputation which has caused many track critics to doubt whether any American colleges can furnish teams strong enough to keep the title from the invaders. Among the Eastern colleges the strongest contenders in the two mile relay are Cornoll Georgetown, and Yale, while from the West will come fast teams from Kansas and Chicago. The program for the Carnival includes as well as relay racos, many...
...Sprint Relay Team Leaves Today...
...University medley sprint relay team, composed of Captain Burke, Chapin, Merrill and Fletcher, and the Crimson entrant in the hammer throw. Marshall, will leave today for Philadelphia with Coach Martin and Manager Chandler, since their events come tomorrow on the first day of the meet. The other University entrants, whose contests come on Saturday, will leave tomorrow afternoon...
...University of Pennsylvania will be the host of the delegates, who will be invited to attend the Sophomore prom on Friday evening, April 27, in addition to the Relay Carnival on Friday and Saturday. A special performance of the Mask and Wighshow will also be given, and the delegates will witness the triangular crew race between Princeton, Columbia, and Cornell, in the Childs Cup Race...