Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the completion of the sprint, jumping, and hurdle events yesterday afternoon, the annual fall handicap track meet got under way. The distance events will be run this afternoon, while the field events will not be held until after the close of the football season...
...lead, the Elis conserving their strength until the last two miles, when they pulled ahead to win. If Yale gets behind tomorrow, they will find it difficult to catch up. Stroke John Watts '28, once his crew gets the lead, keeps his eye on the rival boat, matches every sprint, and strives to catch the oppoing coxwain napping. But if Yale gets a distinct lead at the start, the heady Laughlin should manage to keep ahead, for although the Harvard crew is gigantically powerful, the Yale oarsmen are no weaklings...
...beat that averaged 32 strokes to the minute carried the shell away from a racing start, and at the close a sprint raised the count almost...
...start from scratch in the century did not run. The leg which he injured in the Intercollegiates on May 29 is in good shape again but Coach Farrell decided not to run any risk of a recurrence of the former difficulty by sending the Crimson sprint ace into competition before it was necessary...
Last fall's football end who has been out in front of Red and Blue sprint fields for the last two years pulled a tendon in the Dartmouth meet at Hanover on May 7 and has been unable to compete since then. According to Coach Lawson Robertson, however, he is now in shape again and hopes to be in the fighting with such stars as Borah and Miller in the finals of the short dash Saturday afternoon. It was originally planned to enter Scull in both the century and the lurlong, but in view on his recent injury...