Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stanford and Southern California lived up to expectations leading the field in the number of men qualified, the former with 14 and the latter with 10. Although Stanford enters today's competition still a heavy favorite to carry off championship honors, the most surprising upset of the first day occurred to one of the Californians best runners. Emerson Spencer, generally picked to depose Cecil Cooke, giant Syracuse negro, from his place as the premier quarter miler in college ranks, was forced out of the meet by falling to take better than a fourth in his qualifying heat...
Clifford Hoffman, counted on by his University of Southern California mates to place first in both the shot and discus, came second to Gerken, California captain in the former event, but did over 147 feet with the metal plate to lead the field...
...with Georgetown discloses that while the defense has tightened enough to raise its fielding record seven points, the hitting, despite the outburst against the University of Maine, has fallen ten notches. From a 304 mark the figure of the Crimson hitsmiths has shrunk to 294, the lowest since the southern trip, and the first average below 300 since the first week in May, when a 229 record brought the batters to the edge of the charmed circle...
...half miler was settled to the satisfaction of track folowers on Saturday by a trial race in this event. Heilprin won the decision over Starrat and Barnshaw and is now rated as the most likely contender against such runners as Swinbourne, of Georgetown. McCloskey, of Boston College, Lovejoy, of Southern California, and McKinnon, of Stanford...
Word was received here yesterday that Coach Templeton with the other 14 members of the Stanford I. C. A. A. A. A. track squad started eastward last Saturday and will arrive in Philadelphia tomorrow. The other Pacific Coast entrants, Southern California, present title-holder, and the University of California are also enroute and are expected to arrive about the same time as their Stanford rivals