Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joie Ray, U.S. runner, shot from the starting line like a sprinter running a dash, circled five laps of Madison Square Garden without slackening. Behind him came three runners. Behind them came Nurmi. The crowd roared. Ray was the favorite. Was it not a ¾ mile race?his best distance? Had not his world's record (3 min. 5 sec.) stood unmenaced for eight years? On, on went Ray; he was two laps from the end, one lap. Then suddenly, soundlessly, a great wind passed him. Woefully he looked upon a pair of heels, the heels of Paavo Nurmi. Eight...
...Interdormitory wrestling championships take place this afternoon at 3.30 in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Bouts will be held in seven classes ranging from the 115-pound to the unlimited classes. The winner in each division is awarded four points and the runner-up two points. An additional point will be given for every fall registered. The winners are the logical choices for places on the fresh...
Although the winners are not necessarily assured of places on the Freshman team, they become the logical candidates for those positions. The winner of each bout wins four points, and the runner-up two points. For every tall registered, however an additional point is added...
...world's record. The race was a 2,000-yard handicap, the occasion the annual indoor games of the Brooklyn College Club. When the pistol punched the air and Nurmi felt his lever-like legs beginning their incomparable trit-trot, he saw up the track three runners thrusting forward, all ahead of him, due to the one hundred yard handicaps. Through the scattered field he pumped, lap and lap; now there were only two, now only one runner ahead of him. That one was Gunnar Nilson, a rival Finn...
...following caption accompanied a picture of Vinton Chapin '23, in the Photographic Weekly of the Daily Princetonian for January 17: "Vinton Chapin, recently elected captain of Harvard's 1925 eleven. He plays half-back, is an adept receiver of the forward pass, and an excellent open field runner...