Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about examinations. In one method, a member of the tutoring group would go to the examination, while all the others gathered with a tutor nearby. After glancing over the questions for a few minutes, their confederate inside would stroll nonchalantly out of the room for a smoke and then sprint for the rendez-vous, exam in hand. An experienced tutor could easily analyze an examination in a few minutes and deliver a quick lecture on the best answers. The tutorial group would then march to the examination hall, explain that they had slightly overslept, and demand to be admitted. Thus...
Before running in the mile relay, Alpers set a record of 49.8 in the Ryder race. His finishing sprint put him well ahead of Tufts' Steve Wilkie, who had peaten Arnold Howe in last year's Knights of Columbus Meet, Little in this year's K of C, and who had never lost to a Crimson quarter-miler...
Simultaneous with the Ivy Leagues the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges vetoed the recommendation of its crew coaches that the 1955 Eastern Sprint Championships be moved from Washington to Princeton. The coaches feel the present Potomac River site offers inadequate facilities. They frequently have criticized the regatta as inconvenient and poorly-managed...
Above, Jack Edwards, varsity freestyle, goes all out in a sprint start. The North Carolinian will be coach Hal Ulen's first man in the hundred this winter. Aside from ace backstroker Don Mulvey, all the team's stars will return...
...they took the last turn, a spotlight focused on the pair and picked up Chataway's final move. His smooth style remained, but there was no sign of the stamina needed for a sprint when the Briton moved out on the track to get racing room. Fifty yards from the tape, he was half a pace back. Twenty-five yards to go, and he was still behind. But the gap was smaller now. By the time they passed the tape, Chris Chataway, the man who always finishes second, was first by a stride. His time...