Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the hurdle events. The point was made at the convention that a runner who knocks down most of his hurdles suffered a sufficient handicap for not clearing them cleanly, so it was voted to do away with the rule disqualifying a hurdler for upsetting the barriers. A false start in a hurdle event has hither to been penalized by setting the runner back a yard. It was decided, however, that this penalty was too sever, and the rules were amended to allow a first false break go unpenalized, while a second would cause the disqualification of the hurdler...
...lighting the Yard lights. I used to carry a bottle of bensine and a torch around with me every night, and fill and light each lamp separately. Sometimes the wind would blow them out as fast as I could light them, and then I'd have o start all over again...
Tricky weather and minor difficulties had dogged the tails of the big ships, which were five at the start. At Tampico, the second stop after the take-off on Dec. 21 from San Antonio, Tex., the St. Louis broke an oil pump and burned out its motor. Another motor was fetched and installed, the other planes waiting. Leaving Guatemala City, the New York made a forced landing and lost its ground gear.* Taxiing out of Balboa harbor, off for Colombia, the San Antonio was snagged on a coral reef and the St. Louis had engine trouble. The cripples were mended...
Last fall Cox broke Tibbetts' cross country record, and is considered the strongest entry in the two mile race. However Captain Haggerty won two first places in last week's meet and will start in a confident mood...
Coach Wachter will start a team which he hopes will gain a third victory over the Elis in as many years. His men enter the game about evenly matched with the Yale players; each has lost the more important games of the season, and the comparative scores give neither a decided advantage. Both have been defeated by Dartmouth and Columbia...