Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brokaw Pool nightly for the past week. The swimming team is expected to be at least 50 per cent, stronger than in 1912-13, because of the addition of several men who were stars on the Freshman team. Captain E. J. D. Cross, who holds two intercollegiate sprint records, is showing better form than at the beginning of last season
...morning the three four-oared crews held a race, the two University fours going the full two miles, while the Freshmen dropped out at the end of the first mile. When they dropped out, they were on even terms with the first four, having gained this position by a sprint at a high stroke near the close of the mile. On the full distance, the first crew beat the second by a distance of about five lengths...
...Barron, Jr., '14,, led from the start in the quarter-mile and after a gruelling sprint down the long straight-away, burst the tape three yards ahead of Wilkie, the Yale favorite, on whose heels came J. C. Rock '15. The time 49s., equals the record made by J. F. Haigh of Harvard...
...Capper '15 set a terrific pace in this race, going the first quarter in 54 2-5 seconds. T. W. Koch '14 went into the lead in the back stretch, but tired and was passed on the turn by Brown. In the home stretch Poucher's sprint took second place from Cappen who had worked forward again after having fallen behind...
...these, in the 220-yard low hurdles and high jump, as well as two second places, in the 120-yard high hurdles and broad jump. The other first place for the Freshmen was secured by G. Lamont '16, who won the 880-yard run by a beautiful sprint at the finish...