Word: sprinters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprints will miss John Calloway, who in his Senior year suddenly forged into a first class sprinter. Bill Schmidt was captain and first-ranking high-hurdler of last year's Varsity, but was incapacitated by a sprained ankle in the latter part of the season. Former Freshman Mason Fernald, in the Oxford-Cambridge meet of July 10, succeeds to the hurdling honors...
...team which defeated Yale the worst in the history of Harvard-Yale track. Probation, however, has developed into a definite cancer this fall. Several good men will be prevented from competing at all this year unless midyears remove the bonds. Nat Heard in the shot, pole vaulter Win Pettingell, sprinter Charlle Cretzmeyer, and quarter-miler Joe Donnelly have fallen victim to June examinations...
Sparks Sorlien '39 of Leverett, and a Varsity sprinter, won the 100 yard dash. William W. Shirk '38 of Lowell was second; Lloyd Mills, Jr. '40 of Winthrop was third; Charles L. Burwell '39 of Eliot was fourth, and Varsity highjumper Irving S. Michelman '39 of Leverett was fifth...
Sparks Sorlien took the 160-yard dash in 17 seconds fiat. Sorlien is a Varsity sprinter and broad-jumper. Freshman Robert Russell, a middle distance man, was second to Sorlien, and R. H. Abernathy, Jr. '41 was third. The 80-yard dash was won by F. G. Neal in 8.4 seconds. Partlow and Sorlien were second and third...
...most valuable functions of this electric eye set-up is to determine the normal reaction to the report of the starter's gun. Reaction, as determined by the first light, varies from .56 to .36 of a second, Varsity sprinter Fred Ulen having the record for the fastest reaction. Consistently the experienced men trained to a starter's gun have the fastest reaction...