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Things have changed in 14 years. When Bannister, a 25-year-old English medical student, crossed the finish line at Oxford's Iffley Road track after his history-making 3:59.4 run and collapsed from exhaustion, he was thought to have done the impossible. Today, Jim Ryun breezes through sub-3:55 miles with seemingly no effort...
Villanova's second place relay team, which beat Harvard in the Boston Athletic Association and Philadelphia Classic meet this season, was weakened by the absence of Dave Patrick, who raced Jim Ryun in the mile and took second...
...years since Britain's Roger Bannister opened the floodgates by running a 3-min. 59.4-sec. mile, no fewer than 84 athletes have cracked the mythical 4-min. "barrier"-running a total of 278 sub-4-min. miles. Tops among them, of course, is Jim Ryun, the University of Kansas junior who at 20 is already the fastest middle-distance runner of all time. Last month in Bakersfield, Calif., Ryun lowered his own world record for the mile to 3 min. 51.1 sec. Two weeks ago in Los Angeles, he zipped through 1,500 meters-120 yds. short...
Obviously somebody is going to break 3 min. 50 sec. for the mile-probably Ryun and possibly this season. Track Coach Bill Bowerman, who has turned out nine sub-4-min. milers at the University of Oregon, predicts that Ryun may lower the record all the way to 3 min. 45 sec. before he is through. But hardly anybody thinks that will give Jim any permanent place in the record book. Advances in nutrition, training methods, equipment, medicine and psychology undoubtedly will produce even faster runners than Ryun. The man who started it all, Roger Bannister...
Giving a hound the once-over makes you think of both Jim Ryun's slender power and Mohammad Ali's dense bulk. Ribs stick out all over, but so do muscles. Twiggy bigjointed legs. Deer eyes, Teacup muzzles sheathed in leather. Deadleaf ears...