Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman track team lost to Phillips Exeter Academy 70 1-2 to 37 1-2 at Exeter, Saturday afternoon. Captain Coggeshall '18 won the mile by a fine sprint after a slow pace all the way. The other winners for the Freshmen were E. Rowse '18 in the 220-yard low hurdles, and C. S. Babbitt '18 in the pole-vault...
...Carnival to be held under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania a week from today. The following men will represent the University: 100-yard dash, E. A. Teschner '17; 1-mile relay, W. J. Bingham '16, T. R. Pennypacker '16, E. A. Teschner '17, and W. Willcox '17; sprint medley, Captain F. W. Capper '15, E. A. Teschner '17, R. Tower '15, and W. Willcox '17; high jump, J. B. Camp '15, J. O. Johnstone '16; broad jump, M. L. Greeley '15, J. O. Johnstone '16, and W. Rollins '16; pole-vault, J. B. Camp '15, M. L. Greeley...
...consideration of this question I think we should place some value in past tradition and in the fact that four miles has been the established distance. The three-mile race is an untried thing. My opinion is that it would develop into more or less of a sprint and would be more detrimental physically than the longer course. In all racing it is the pace and not the distance that kills. In addition, the last mile of the four-mile race is often the most exciting and is the greatest proof of superiority between rival crews...
...race between the two University boats, Crew B defeated Crew A by a scant ten feet after a mile and seven-eighths of continual struggle. One boat replaced the other in the lead all the way down the course, until, in the final sprint, Crew B forged slightly ahead and crossed the finish line just in advance of the opposing eight...
...exciting throughout. The first Eliot and Thayer crews quickly distanced the second club crews and went down the course bow to bow. In a thrilling race to the finish line, the Thayer crew nosed out the Eliot boat by a meagre five feet, the second Eliot showing a remarkable sprint during the entire last half-mile and closing up gradually on the leading boats until but four feet separted the bows of the first and second Eliot eights as they swept across the line, a good two and a half lengths in front of the second Thayer crew...