Word: relayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dusk fell over London's White City Stadium last June 10, Harvard's Joel Landau stood at the starting line for the 4 X 110 relay with the failure or success of the Harvard-Yale track team's mission in England hanging upon what he and three other runners did in the next 40-odd seconds. As it turned out, the four determined sprinters--Landau and Frank Yeomans of Harvard and Jay Luck and Jim Carney of Yale--won the final relay and gave the Americans a thrilling 8-7 victory over the combined forces of Oxford and Cambridge...
With only the relay to be run the Americans had fought back from a 6-4 deficit to tie the score at seven first places each. Also, in 36 previous Anglo-American contests over a span of 64 years, Oxford and Cambridge had won 17, and the American universities (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, and West Point) had taken 17, with two meets being tied...
Yale's Jim Stack made use of a dazzling kick to win the 440, tying the meet once again and setting the stage for the relay. Stack's time, 49.0, was less than sensational, but he needed a desperate finish to overhaul Harvard captain Albie Gordon and Mike Riegels of Oxford...
After Harvard and Yale took three of the next four events, the relay team composed of two men who had already run two races (Landau and Yeomans), a freshman who had never been in a relay (Luck), and a footsore hurdler (Carnev) gave the Americans a glorius victory...
...Yale) isn't training" gradually turned into even more bitter remarks such as "Of course we want to win, but we want the first places to be Yale (or Harvard) first places." This bickering continued right up to the day of the meet, but by the time the final relay was run off, the honor of America had overshadowed all other concerns...