Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mucilage. At the end of a mile, the Bulldogs trailed by half a length; after two miles, Harvard's margin was up to three boat lengths. Rowing mostly at a steady 33 strokes per minute, the Crimson oarsmen swept to a six-length victory, clocked 19 min. 44 sec. upstream to break the 17-year-old Thames River record by a fantastic 8.8 sec...
Last week at the U.S. Track and Field Federation meet in Terre Haute, Ind., Miler Ryun loafed through his specialty in 4 min. 2.8 sec.-just fast enough to leave his nearest competitor 15 yds. behind. But he also competed in the half mile, an event he has entered "only five times before," ran the 880 yds. in 1 min. 44.9 sec.-beating Peter Snell's four-year-old world mark by .2 sec. Shrugged Ryun: "I had to do something to break the monotony...
...last summer's A.A.U. championships. Snarled Snell: "I resent having anybody that young in my kind of race." He resented it a good deal more next day, when Ryun won the A.A.U. mile, beating the New Zealander to the tape in 3 min. 55.3 sec.-the fastest time ever recorded by an American...
...France's Michel Jazy, the current record holder, is 30. Ryun, at the tender age of 19, is already the second-fastest miler in history. In this month's Compton Invitational track meet at Los Angeles, he sped the distance in 3 min. 53.7 sec.-just .1 sec. off Jazy's world record. Afterward, he complained mildly that the official who was supposed to call out intermediate lap times had fallen down on the job. Shucks. "I could have run faster," Ryun insisted...
...until he entered the homestretch did Kauai King start to come on. Responding to the sting of Brumfield's bat, his tongue lolling out of his mouth, he finished with a fantastic burst that carried him to a 1¾-length victory. Time: 1 min. 55 2/5 sec., second-fastest clocking since the Preakness was lengthened to 1 3/16...