Word: sprinters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michard is a professional bicycle sprinter, Olympic winner in 1924. René Lacoste, who defeated "Big Bill" Tilden and "Little Bill" Johnston to take the Davis Cup away from English speaking players for the first time in history, won second place. Seraphin Martin, middle-distance runner, Spider Pladner, bantamweight fisticuffer, ran third, fourth. Henri Cochet, famed Davis Cup tennis player, stood miserably among the last; Jean Borotra, brilliant, bounding member of the Cup team, scored no votes...
...loss of A.H. Miller '27, whose sprinting was a feature of the winter season last year, will be felt, but A.E. French '29 is expected to fill the sprinter's place on the team, with J.L. Reid '29, and J.O. Wildes '29 doing the distance work...
Guarnaccia rose suddenly to first team rank last year because of his great speed and weight and his accurate passing. As yet a relatively inexperienced player, he possesses possibilities for much development. As a ball carrier he is strongly reminiscent of A. H. Miller '27, former University sprinter and full back. With almost Miller's speed, Guarnaccia is lighter and better able to vary his pace than his predecessor, and more dangerous to opposing teams because of his passing ability...
...rated after Kelley at this time alternated with Kelley as second choice in the signal caller's berth on the first year eleven three years ago and since then has played sporadically with the ineligibles. Burns, who is captain of next spring's University diamond outfit, and a board; sprinter of note has hitherto concentrated most of his efforts on baseball and track...
...were last week far ahead of an Oxford-Cambridge combination-until the day of the meet at Stamford Bridge, England. The worsted was stretched at the finish line of a 100-yard dash and the U. S. men continued in the lead as Al ("Truck") Miller, 200-lb. Harvard sprinter, charged in ahead of Bayes Norton, onetime Yale man now at Oxford. But other worsteds, stretched for races of 220, 440 and 880 yards, were soon broken by Runkel of Cambridge and Brown of Oxford, Runkel winning the 220 and 440 events in quick succession. White of Oxford...