Word: relays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Eddie Farrell yesterday made the selection of the two relay teams which he will run in the meet. In the 400-meter sprint relay are entered Bob Brookings, Eddie Calvin, Downer, and Arthur Duffey. For the 1600-meter relay he has chosen Carl Abell, Johnny Dorman, Dubie Brookings, and O'Connor. Since these teams have had no practice together so far, little aid in the way of points is expected from them...
...only change so far from the lineup of the Princeton meet is in the 1500 and the 800 meters. Jack Scheu will run alone in the 1500, while Tony Bliss will accompany Bob Woodward in the 1600, Johnny Dorman limiting his efforts to the 1600-meter relay. Eighteen men in all will make the trip
Pennsylvania Relay Carnival which started two years later in Philadelphia...
...Philadelphia, on two bright summery April afternoons, some 2,000 schoolboys, whose presence makes the Penn Relays the biggest, as well as the oldest, meet of its kind in the country, capered around the track dropping their batons, falling on their faces, skinning their knees. When the two days were over, 17 meet records had been broken. Manhattan had won the mile relay, Columbia and Michigan State two other relay titles each. Four men had distinguished themselves as heroes of the meet. University of Michigan's famed Negro Willis Ward, star footballer and his college's most versatile...
Like the Penn Relays, Drake's were distinguished by the performance of Negro sprinters. Ohio State's long, limber Jesse Owens placed a scrap of white paper 26 ft. from the broad-jump takeoff board, just 2 ⅛ inches short of the world's record made in Japan four years ago by Chuhei Namb. His legs twinkled down the takeoff. He shot into the air like a brown bullet. When he landed he was f of an inch short of Nambu's mark but his 26 ft. if in. was a new U. S. record. Next...