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Rabbits & Guns. By trade, Hayes is a halfback, not a sprinter. He earns his keep at A. & M. (room, board, tuition and free laundry) toiling autumns for Gaither's padded legions; he scored eleven touchdowns, leading the team to an 8-2 season last year, and he might already belong to some pro football club if 1964 were not an Olympic year (he has been drafted by both the Denver Broncos and the Dallas Cowboys). Even in track skivvies, Hayes still runs as though he had a football tucked under his arm-head bobbing, shoulders rolling, elbows flailing. Unlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: Fight for a Fraction | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...heartbeat, 1/30th of a sigh, 1/21,000,000,000th of a lifetime. It is, literally, the blinking of an eye - an in significant instant to people who measure their lives in minutes or months or 40-hour weeks. But not to Robert Lee Hayes, 21, a husky sprinter from Florida A. & M. University. Hayes is the world's fastest human, a title he holds by virtue of the fragile fact that he can run 60 yds. or 100 yds. a tenth of a second faster than anybody else who ever lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: Fight for a Fraction | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

Freestyle sprinter Lou Kozloff is probably Penn's best bet to break up the Crimson's domination. After him, the Quakers get a bit thin; freestyler Jay Eberhardt has set a new Penn record in the 500-yard freestyle with a 5:55.6 clocking, a scant 50 seconds off Dave Abramson's Harvard record. Backstroker Bruce Banm has also turned in a record, but his 2:16.2 time is easily within the reach of Earl Showerman and Al Lincoln...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weak Quaker Squad Challenges Swimmers | 2/29/1964 | See Source »

Last year the Crimson trackmen posted a 69-40 win over the Big Green. This year the margin should be greater, as two of Dartmouth's winners last year, sprinter Gerry Ashworth, and 600 man Tom Holsel, have been lost by graduation...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Crimson Trackmen Eye Two-Mile Relay Record | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...yard dash, it was a different story. A tired Awori slowed at the finish of the final heat and finished fifth in a field of six. No other Crimson sprinter made it past the preliminary heats...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Runners Set 2 Records; Place 2nd in NEAAU | 2/6/1964 | See Source »

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