Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opponent had a lead of a quarter of a lap. A slight loss of ground by Fletcher was recovered by B. R. Cutcheon '25, but when Kobes took the track the Tech man was still well in the lead. It was not many seconds, however, before the Crimson runner flashed by him, and when Kobes broke the tape there was half a lap of open track between him and his opponent. The time...
...Freshmen began the meet by losing the one-lap relay to the Engineers, who ran the short distance in one minute five and two-fifths seconds. Followed the one-lap entry for University entries. But this race came to an untimely end when the fourth Tech runner became so absorbed in cheering his predecessor that he forgot to take the baton from him and carry on. The race was run over, and won by Harvard with a quarter lap lead in 1.03 3-5. A. H. O'Nell '28 starred for the Crimson first-year men in this event...
...other race completed the list of Crimson victories: the nine-lap relay, in which W. L. Tibbetts '26, Olympic runner, lapped his opponent, enabling his team to win with a time of 14.05 3-5 despite the excellent showing of Bemis...
Significance. Nurmi is 27 -an age at which few runners can race any more, at which none has ever broken records. Nurmi broke two. More than this, he defeated Ray and Ritola - his most potent rivals. More than this, he caused it to appear as if these men - both, beyond a doubt, among the world's swiftest runners - were novices and that he alone ran as a good runner should. Thus did this thin blond Finn alter, for those who watched, the standard by which they had been used to measure the speed of human legs...
...very persistent and I became interested in him as he improved. I put him through the regular course of training, which we follow in our country. That includes the Finnish bath, which every runner in Finland must take about twice a week...