Word: relayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...borne to center stage for the first time, including the woman on TIME'S cover, Peggy Kokernot, 25, a Houston physical education teacher and marathon runner. Along with other women athletes, she had been called on to make up for lost time when the symbolic, 2,612-mile torch relay that preceded the conference began to lag so far behind schedule there was fear the convention would outpace its torch. She was then placed in the group that ran the bronze torch into the opening session, and her own ambition says much about why there was a women's convention...
...inspired running in the distance events. John Chafee blazed to victory in the half-mile, followed closely by sophomore teammate Thad McNulty, a much improved and very solid performer who also collected a third place in the mile and a victory as a member of Harvard's two-mile relay team...
...process of disillusionment began with the first event--the medley relay. The team of Gina Stuart, Liz Kelly, Laurie Downey and Sherry Lubbers spurted to a team record 4:29.47, breaking the old standard, set in 1972, by .3 seconds...
Maura Costin, returning from a back injury, placed second in both the 1000-yd. free style and the 100-yd. butterfly and won the 200-yd. individual medley. She also joined Katy Kelley, Lubbers and Downey for a first place finish in the 400-yd. freestyle relay. The winning time...
...first ten games, and is a strong candidate to win the Heisman Trophy. To take advantage of Campbell's brute (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lb.) strength and the sizzling speed of Wide Receiver Johnny ("Lam") Jones-a 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 400-meter relay and, according to Akers, "the fastest football player in the world"-the new coach substituted a big-play, I-formation offense for the Royal Wishbone. When the offense bogs down, there is the estimable leg of Kicker Russell Erxleben to put three points on the scoreboard. Erxleben set an N.C.A.A. field-goal...