Word: relayers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 3,000 athletes, representing 400 colleges and schools of the United States will enter the annual relay carnival of the University of Pennsylvania, to be held at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, on April 29 and 30. The latest figures show that 104 colleges, 128 high schools, 54 preparatory schools, 78 grammar schools, and 17 parochial institutions, a total of 381, have entered teams. This number is increasing daily and it is confidently expected that when the entries close Friday more than 400 will have entered teams...
...team has been far from unsatisfactory. The results of the first meet participated in, the B. A. A. games, were on the surface disappointing, but an examination of the races show that things were not as bad as they seem. In both the two-mile and one-mile University relay races, the half-lap leads which the opposing teams had at the finish were due to one runner on each team, who lost distance through inability to take the corners properly. This fault was corrected, and was not in evidence in any of the later relay races. Furthermore, the Yale...
...Relay Team Improved...
...Freshman relay team can be excused for its poor showing, when it is remembered that up to less than a month before the race not one of the men on the team had run a relay race. The 1924 quarter has shown much improvement since that time, as is shown by its defeating Andover on March 5. There is one point which might well be mentioned here. In every race which has been run by either the University or 1924 teams, ground has been lost due to the method of passing the baton. This was especially noticeable in the triangular...
...relay team made a poor start at the B. A. A. games against Yale, and failed to show much improvement in the Worcester Academy meet, but it soon found itself and showed up well at the triangular meet, and the next week it defeated the Andover team. The rest of the Freshman track squad, with the exception of Captain Percy Jenkins and three or four others is rather weak, but is improving gradually, and by the time of the first spring meet should be up to standard...