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...First Marshal. French prepared at Worcester Academy and during his college career has been captain of the Freshman football team, and this year of the University eleven, the first to defeat Yale in six years, as well as being president of his class in its Freshman year, a stellar sprint man on the track team and president of the Student Council. His total of 210 votes for First Marshal is one of the largest ever recorded in a Senior Class election...
...monkey, little El Ouati, the Algerian Marathon runner who won the Olympic race at Amsterdam last summer came to the U. S. in order to race for Promoter Bill ("Easy") Pickens. Last fortnight in Manhattan, he ran against Joie Ray whom he had beaten, by a last minute sprint, at Amsterdam; with frightened looks behind him and a low scooping stride. El Ouati beat Ray for the second time by seven laps. After this race it was planned to send El Ouati and Joie Ray on a tour of U. S. cities, beginning with Boston and Philadelphia...
...crews seemed tied together, side-by-side, by a rubber band that would stretch just a little. A short race (2,000 metres), it was soon to end. Coxswain Stewart of Yale pulled out his red handkerchief, which told the eight boys facing him that they would have to sprint like mad. But they had been sprinting all along, and so had California. The rubber band contracted to a quarter of a length, at the finish. . . . It was decided; the eight boys and Coxswain Blessing from California (University of) will represent the U. S. at the Olympic Games...
...base, Yale moved steadily, powerfully, on a river turned into a theatre. Movie men cranking on the stone piers of the bridge photographed the coxswain throwing up his hands to show his crew that they had crossed the line. Ten lengths behind, the heavy Harvard crew, too tired to sprint, lumbered up to the bridge, collapsed. Said Yale Coach Leader: "I think the lines of Harvard's varsity boat had a great deal to do with the crew trailing so far astern. I noticed the varsity boat in practice seemed to drag and believe the craft was a handicap...
...University, second 150-pound eight furnished a very close competition in its mile sprint against the Engineer lightweights of the same class, losing to a last-minute Beaver rally by a little over a length. The winning time was six minutes and three seconds...