Word: relaying
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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With the winter work of the track team which will begin on Monday, preparations will be started for the University and class relay teams to be entered in the Boston Athletic Association meet on February 8. The men will be divided into squads which will meet in the Gymnasium every day at 12, 3.30, 4.30, 5.30 and, possibly, 11. The work will be under the direction of Mr. Graham, and will consist of gymnasium work, practicing starts and running on the board track on Holmes Field...
Harvard won both the two and four mile relay championships at Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon; and Yale easily got first in the one mile. The day was a fine one for running and over 9,000 people attended the games...
...mile relay was very close for the first mile, but after that was never in doubt. Drumheller of U. of P. set the pace in the first relay, but Behr passed him near the finish and came in five yards ahead. Klahr, of U. of P., quickly made up this distance, and beat out Applegate by two yards. Swan, however, came in first on the third relay, and gave Boynton a short lead, which he increased to about ten yards at the finish. Columbia came in second and Pennsylvania third. Time by half-miles...
...four-mile championship lay between Harvard, Pennsylvania and Cornell. At the end of the first relay Cornell and Pennsylvania had a lead of twelve yards over Foote. On the second mile Grant of U. of P. took the lead and finished twenty yards ahead of Cornell, with Knowles of Harvard some distance behind. Cornell finished first in the third mile, with Pennsylvania second and forty yards ahead of White. Clark started the last relay fifty yards behind the leader, and ran a strong race all the way, gaining gradually on the Cornell runner, whom he passed at the three-quarters...
PHILADELPHIA, April 26.--The Harvard relay teams arrived here at noon today after a pleasant trip, with all the men in good condition. This afternoon the men took a half-mile walk to the university and looked over the track and the college buildings. Mills was the only one who did any running. Pennsylvania has shown special courtesy to Harvard in the assignment of training quarters. The Yale team arrived this afternoon...