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Against B.U. Wednesday, Lord and Golden scored victories in the 40-yard dash and hurdles, respectively. John Lindow, William Thompson, and Bob Cook back up Lord in the sprint...
...blast out of the blocks, boom along full-bore for 100, 200, 400 meters. Once in a while, someone breaks a record. But a record mile takes a curious kind of teamwork: two or three evenly matched runners harrying and extending each other until finally, in that last agonizing sprint to the tape, one man finds some unknown reserve of energy and will power. Poor Peter Snell. At 25, the burly New Zealander is so much better than anyone else that he may never know how fast he can really...
...tounchdown came with 12 minutes left in the game and gave Harvard an 18-14 lead. Once again, McCluskey disdained the kick and tried for two points, but Pat Conway's sprint around right end was stopped short of the goal line...
...only a so-so runner at the University of Kansas, failed to make the U.S. team in the 5,000 meters, won a trip to Tokyo when he finished a distant second behind Gerry Lindgren in the 10,000. But he could do one thing: he could sprint pretty well in the final lap. "I'm going to win this thing if I have anything left at the end," he told his wife after clipping off a 23.8-sec. 200 meters in practice...
...sprint by the Crimson's Charles Redman in an attempt to displace Brown's fifth runner, Jim Ackroyd, and give Harvard a tie, failed by a scant...