Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Number one man, Billy Morris, last year's national junior champ, was runner-up in the national juniors this year. In fact, five of this year's team competed in this tournament, one reaching the quarter-finals and one reaching the semi-finals...
...Gehrmann: undefeated in 34 straight indoor miles, he pays no attention to the clock, runs only fast enough to win, and has yet to demonstrate his full potential (his best indoor time: 4 min. 1.4 sec.). Sturdy and strong, Peter Snell, 23, is probably the finest natural runner in the world; in the words of Coach Igloi, he is a "stamina-speed" runner, who usually kills off his opposition by setting a blinding pace. Within the past month, Snell has set four world records, at distances ranging from 800 meters to a mile...
Unlike Snell, Jim Beatty is a "big burst" runner. Small and slight (5 ft. 5½ in., 128 Ibs.), he has the endurance to run any distance up to three miles, but his most important weapon is a reserve of speed-a big burst that he can call on at will anytime during a race. Unlike Delany, Beatty runs against the clock; his sense of timing is so precise that he needs little prompting. Now at peak condition, Beatty will concentrate on the mile this summer, but he plans an eventual assault on every world record from 1,500 meters...
Levis has been U.S. National Champion six times, a member of three Olympic teams, and a runner-up in Olympic competition. Marion was a member of the Yugoslavian national team back in the middle '30s. Both competed in the 1932 and 1936 Olympics...
...varsity track team put the finishing touches on its brute-force triumph in the Greater Boston Indoor championships Saturday at M.I.T. Coach Bill McCurdy's varsity tallied 58 points, 19 more than runner...