Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful Negro from Gary, Ind. At the University of Illinois he wanted to be a football star in the worst way, but during a preseason drill in his junior year he broke a leg and never played football again. Later he won a fistful of Big Ten sprint championships, was leadoff man on the 400-meter relay team that set a Pan American record in Mexico in 1955. But when the Army shipped him to Los Angeles to try for the Olympic team, a bad break stopped him once more. He suffered leg cramps, was roundly beaten, and missed making...
...which the best of competing jumpers qualified for spear-throwing, the four best spear-tossers ran a sprint race, the three fastest sprinters flung a discus, and the two finalists wrestled for a wreath of olive leaves. The modern decathlon consists of the 100-meter dash, broad jump, shot put, high jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1,500-meter...
...Undaunted by a length-and-a-quarter loss to Yale in the Carnegie Cup race on the Housatonic River Cornell's crew came back on the choppy waters of the Potomac to lick the Elis by a scant 3 ft. in the sprint championship of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges...
Undefeated two-miler Pete Reider ran away from everyone, beating teammate Ralph Perry by 150 yards. Dave McLean, with an unbelievable sprint, came from 30 yards behind to beat Eli Tim Hogen by five yards...
Then Jim Bailey got up on his toes, dug in and began to do his job. He caught Delany, crept up on Landy. Closer than he ever expected to be to the world's best, Bailey decided to boost his countryman into an extra-fast final sprint. "I reached out and batted John on the backside and said, 'Go!' His foot came up against mine, and he wobbled a bit." Right then, for the first time, Bailey decided he had a chance...