Word: relays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jenkins won two Olympic gold medals, winning the 400 meter race and running on the U.S.'s successful 1600 meter relay team...
...project was a limited one, and was concerned mainly with the uses of television in preparing elementary and secondary school teachers. A microwave relay system was set up to transmit actual classroom situations from Weeks Junior High School in Newton, Massachusetts, to the third floor lounge in Littauer Center at Harvard, where teachers-in-training were assembled to observe the various classes in action...
...Angeles. Burly Parry O'Brien (240 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) sniffed an ammonia ampule to get a little relief from a head cold, whirled across the ring and tossed the 16-lb. ball 63 ft. 2 in. to better his own unofficial record. The mile relay team went the distance in 3:07.3, to break another world record. High Jumper Charlie Dumas broke his own unofficial world record with a 7 ft. f in. practice jump. Husky Hal Connolly threw his 16-lb. hammer 244 ft. 10½ in. to break the world record...
...chief offensive weapon of this backfield is its speed. Besides Boland, who ran the third leg on a record-tying American Championship 80-yard relay quartet at the Penn Relays last Spring, the Big Red boasts two of the fastest halfbacks in its history...
...left half is Junior Irv Roberson, who can cover 100 yards in 9.7 seconds. He anchored the championship relay team at Penn and won the Heptagonal 220-yard low hurdles title. As the team's leading ground gainer last year, he rushed 503 yards in 83 attempts for a 6.11 average per carry...