Word: runners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike famed Pheidippides, the Greek runner who fell dead as he took the last step of the first marathon in 490 B.C. (22 miles from Marathon to Athens), 31-year-old Golfer Ferebee, after dog-trotting almost 40 miles a day for four days, topped off his super-marathon by stopping at New York's World's Fair Grounds and playing his 601st hole on the stroke of midnight for publicity before continuing to Manhattan and a hotel bed at last...
...other changes will be that of Frank Foley at tailback in place of Austie Harding, and Tim Russell at center over Jim Fearon. Foley who flashed as a runner in the Bruin game, will call the plays. Russell, displaced by Fearon earlier this week, earned his pivot post by excellent work yesterday...
...averaging 212 pounds per man from tackle to tackle, was even better now than they were at the close of last season. The scouts spoke of the "catlike" ability of all American Brud Holland in tones of awe and they fairly sang the praises of the "ghost-runner" George Peck, who piled up most of the running back punt yardage, 162 to be exact...
...times. Last year the Harvard fans did not see much of this back as he suffered a spinal injury the first play of the game. John O'Leary was out last year with injuries. He has earned the nod from Coach "Tuss" McLaughry because he is a fast shifty runner who has tremendous drive and hard to tackle. Richard Harlow has already signified his respect for John McLaughry, the great defensive, quarter-back of the '38 eleven. But his sterling qualities extend beyond the ability to protect Bear territory, McLaughry specializes in line bucking. Captain Atwell is the spark-plug...
After the first day of match play, in which favorite Charley Yates and four of his Walker Cup teammates were swept out of the tournament by dark horses, Spectator Vines was still hanging around. For Pat Abbott was the dark horse who had eliminated Walker Cupper Ray Billows, runner-up to Johnny Goodman in last year's championship...