Word: sprinters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...winning of points one year gives ground for expectation, the 1910 team should be a well-balanced one, with least strength in the broad jump and hammer-throw. Foster's remarkable development under Coach Donovan promises another sprinter of Schick's reliability, and Blumer, Watson, Cummin and Billings provide second string material in the two dashes. Blumer, Kelley, Merrihew, and deSelding have all shown much ability in the 440-yard dash, and the first two at least should improve. D. P. Ranney '12, winner of this event in the meet with the Yale freshmen, will be a valuable...
...indications are that as usual the team will be stronger in the track than in the field events. Captain Dodge, when in condition, is a sprinter of the first rank and should materially weaken Yale's otherwise well-grounded hopes in the dashes. There is a great need of more sprinters for next year's team. E. K. Merrihew '10, F. M. de Selding '10, and A. T. Norton '10 should make a strong nucleus for the quarter-mile squad...
Candidates for the track team, will begin regular work in about a week. At present the squad is being coached on the details of form by W. F. Garcelon '95 who has taken charge of the men temporarily in Graham's absence. Yesterday "Tom" Keene, a noted professional sprinter and winner of the Sheffield handicap, coached the squad in starting...
Both figures are exactly one-quarter life size. That of the athlete has been accepted at the Paris Salon, and that of the sprinter at the Royal Canadian Academy, and at the Royal Academy of London...
...figure of the sprinter represents a runner in position for the starting signal, and is an exact mathematical reduction of the average obtained by measuring about one hundred of the best college sprinters of recent years, including Dufly and Wefers of Georgetown, Long of Columbia, Moulton of Yale, and Bigelow, Haigh and Schick of Harvard. The measurements were supplied by Dr. Paul C. Phillips of Amherst...