Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Leader of Yale is taking a task upon himself rarely assumed by a Yale coach heretofore. He will enter the Yale university crew in the Olympic trials on June 14 in Philadelphia, which means that he will change the Yale eight from a long distance crew to a sprint crew for the Olympics and back again into a long distance eight in time to row the University on June...
...less than 51 seconds. Yet it was a hard battle all the way around the track. Allen took the lead and kept it until he was within 20 yards of the finish when Bohannon and Talbot, both of whom had been sticking close at his heels, unleashed a whirlwind sprint which shoved Allen into a close third place at the finish...
Tibbetts also ran a masterly race in the two-mile, taking the lead of the long field of runners whenever he wanted it, and finally, in the last lap, uncorking a sprint which brought him around the last curve at a 440 clip and brought him to the tape 40 yards ahead of Rosenburgh, the Virginia runner, who had seemed to be pressing him earlier in the race...
Philadelphia, April 25.--Coach Farrell's final decision to withdraw his runners from the medley sprint relay at the Penn Relay Carnival today was reached this afternoon shortly before the race began. As a result of this withdrawal the Crimson's only contender in the first-day events was Berglund, the Sophomore hammer thrower, whose heaves in competition today could not win him a place against the veterans who opposed him from Yale, Princeton, and Penn State...
...yards distance for the Freshmen held their own effectively against the opposing runners. Then, in the 220 yard lap, the Crimson chances seemed completely shattered, when Miller pulled a tendon early in his sprint and was forced to hobble around the track for 180 yards, while the runners for Boston College and Yale forger far ahead. Starting with this tremendous handicap, Baggorty, the Freshman anchor man, began to cut down this lead from the time he took up the baton for the mile run. It seemed a hopeless task. But at the start of the last lap he uncorked...