Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game has to equal for speed and endurance, and the development of these features has probably done more to attract the public interest than anything else. Always a fast game, the shortening and improvement of the lacrosse stick made it still faster. The original stick was little more than a flat net on a long handle, and to control the ball with it was little short of marvelous. The modern mentors of the game saw that a shorter stick with a deeper webbing would make for quicker, castle and more accurate handling of the ball. It would prevent a slowing...
...Miller '27 showed a brand of speed in the spurts which should put him up with the leaders in the Stadium finals on May 29. He ran a 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat without any pressure. He then went out in the 220 trials and breezed away from the field in 22 2-5 seconds, but dropped out of the finals...
...change of strokes in the first boat was long expected. When Watts supplanted Winthrop in the tank two months ago, it was understood that the shift was a temporary one, made to help speed up Winthrop's recovery; but Watts remained in the pace setter's seat, and except for one day in the vacation, it looked as if he were sure to stroke the Crimson eight against the Tigers...
...miles he piloted his own motor car at such terrific speed that the Associated Press car which followed skidded into a sand dune, turned turtle...