Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With injuries forcing Captain Mike Keene out of the starting lineup for the second time, Bill Jenkins played in the center slot. By the time he left the game on five personals, Jenkins had scored six points to tie with Gerry Johnson and Rip Collins for runner-up honors. Jack Clark again led the Crimson marksmen with eight markers...
Dodds' unorthodox style had changed little since he ran his first (and involuntary) race. As a boy in Falls City, Neb., he threw a stone at Lloyd Hahn's passing automobile. When the then great runner stopped to give chase, he could not catch the chunky culprit. But Hahn recognized a future champion when he saw one, made young Dodds his prot...
...fastest indoor mile. Hahn plotted the race lap by lap, eleven of them, scribbled the fractional times on paper. Dodds studied them religiously. Then Hahn stood at the starting line in Chicago's Stadium, stop watch in hand, yelled out the minutes and seconds, each time his runner pounded past. At the start of the final lap : "Three-forty-four. You're behind, Gil!" The collaborating pair missed their plotted 4:06 mile by four-tenths of a second; but so doing, they lowered the world's record by nine-tenths of a second...
Myrand was assembling a patrol in the chill darkness near Eschweiler when a company runner told him. "Go back," he said. "I got no time for gags." Then he started toward the Nazi lines. Returning, he was blown out of a jeep by a bursting mine. Then, bruised, unbelieving, he found himself traveling...
...spot of the Intramural Basketball League last Friday afternoon by beating the NROTC Companies F-G quintet, 51 to 19. The F-G squad former league leader, has lost two of its last three games, sinking to third place; Lowell's most formidable rival now is the runner-up, Adams...