Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Entered in the two-mile race, Dodds did everything a runner shouldn't do: he started out pumping like a six-day bike rider, zigzagged all over the track like a halfback, and finally-a full lap behind on the gun lap and staggering like a punch-drunk fighter-tripped Don Lash just a few yards from the tape...
Four House teams traveled to New Haven over the weekend and broke even in contests with the Yale College champions. Lowell's eagers defeated Calhoun College, 53 to 41, while the runner-up Adams five dropped a decision to Saybrook, 48 to 36. Kirkland sent its swimmers against the Silliman natators, and barely eked out a 29 to 28 victory, while the Dean squad squad was whitewashed by a superior Silliman team...
William R. Snow Jr. '44, of Winthrop House and Abilene, Texas, was chosen to manage Varsity Track and Cross Country next year, and Joseph B. McGrath '44, a commuter from Maiden was runner-up in the competition and will be associate manager...
...that Jap police started rounding up U.S. and British "foreigners." A Chinese guide led them, by night, through narrow mountain passes to a farmhouse within earshot of a Jap garrison. Once, during their two-day hideout, they escaped a Jap searching party by a hair. A Chinese contraband runner loaded them at midnight into his small sampan, nosed upstream through sleet and snow for Free China. Japanese troops lined the right bank, Chinese the left; detection meant being riddled by both sides. At journey's end, too numb to move, they were carried through ice water...
When the smoke and surprise of last week's Ivy League openers had cleared away, the Crimson five found itself runner-up in the Eastern Basketball League and also possessor of another honor it has not held in the last few years. George "Bunks" Burditt, as a result of his 21 points against the Big Green and his 5 points against the Big Red, leads the league in individual scoring, 8 points ahead of his nearest rivals...