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Then there was Jim Ryun. Already the fastest miler in history at 3 min. 51.3 sec., the University of Kansas sophomore had little hope of beating that time last week. Nowadays, world mile records are nearly always the result of careful planning and coordination: human mechanical rabbits are employed to insure a fast early pace, and the whole operation is carefully monitored by coaches armed with timing charts and stop watches. But there were no rabbits at Bakersfield, and the pace was so slow on the first lap that Ryun reluctantly decided to do his own pacemaking. His time...
...equipment, there is the matter of modern training. Athletes have always trained, but never so scientifically, so intensely. Glenn Cunningham, who set a world mark of 4 min. 6.8 sec. for the mile in 1934, used to call it a day after a lazy three-mile practice run; Jim Ryun, the University of Kansas sophomore who last year lowered the record to 3 min. 51.3 sec., runs at least twelve miles a day, lifts weights to increase lung capacity and competes against sprinters in relays to sharpen his speed. No longer do athletes worry about becoming musclebound, says Chemical Engineer...
...first quarter of 52 seconds and then barreled through the final quarter to record a fantastic 1:49.3. The time is more than two seconds better than the Harvard record (but will not count as a record). The only freshman to record a faster time last year was Jim Ryun, and a comparison between the two is not completely unrealistic...
Goalie Wayne Ryun had 27 saves for B.U., while Gaye Colley of Michigan State made 33 stops...
...University of Kansas' Jim Ryun, 19, world record holder in the half-mile (1 min. 44.9 sec.) and mile...