Word: sprints
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nobody came close to Chuck Hooizer in the 200 yard breaststroke, but it took a thrilling last minute sprint for Larry Ward to give Harvard its only sweep of the evening and reduce the Crimson deficit to a single point. In the next race Ted Norris tied the meet up at 34 to 34 by finishing exactly 30 yards ahead of the field in the 440 yard freestyle...
Something Blue. Ever since he ran the mile for Milwaukee's Pulaski High, Don Gehrmann had preferred to hang back with the pack, then knock off the leader with a terrific sprint in the stretch. But this year Guy Sundt, Wisconsin's track coach, had taught him to run a different kind of race. With supreme confidence, Gehrmann was planning to ignore Slykhuis and Bengtsson. He would run against the clock, not the competition: a fast 58-second first quarter, a 2-minute half, a 3:04 three quarters, and a record-breaking 4:05 finish. The race...
...lightweight crew eastern sprint races will take place on the Charles, the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges announced yesterday. Simultancously it was disclosed that the eastern inter-collegiate golf champion ships of 1950 will also be decided at Harvard...
...Eastern group set the 1950 sprint races in the heavyweight class for May 13, at Annapolis...
...sprint division, the only other place where M.I.T. has shown any speed, Shep Brown, Martin Hull, and Bob Burke, captain of last year's Freshmen, will swim against Tech's Edgar and Conlin in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events...