Word: sprinters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvey Thayer, a Varsity sprinter last spring, ran fast and far on well set up reverses to the left and behind good blocking on right end sweeps for most of the Winthrop yardage. The Bunnies made two sustained drives in the final quarter, capitalizing on Winthrop penalties, but lost the ball and the game on two unpropitious fumbles...
DiBlasio, a six-two, 190-pound Sophomore with sprinter's legs, hit his peak last year in the Freshman Yale game as a back scoring twice on scintillating runs...
...Sprinter Patton looked very much alive in winning...
...many were married, and some had kids at home. At one training table, nobody followed the ancient Greek rule - designed to prevent dyspepsia and headaches - that only the lightest topics be discussed at mealtimes. The conversation volleyed from the high price of neckties to reincarnation (one sprinter wanted to come back as a dog, another as a race horse). Then it lit on the most dyspeptic subject of all - track. The lean steeplechaser asked a half-miler: "Does all that sugar and dextrose you guys fill up on help...
Pursell wanted Patton to go to U.S.C. In 1945, already a polished sprinter, Mel Patton enrolled there. He had just finished a two-year hitch in the Navy without ever running a race, and hadn't shaken off his G.I. legs. He reported to Coach Cromwell...