Word: straightaway
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...line at the start. As the men neared the turn Merrihew, who had the pole, deSelding, and Kelly were in the front rank with Palmer of Haverford and Leger of Michigan. Blumer was badly boxed and had a hard time keeping on his feet. Coming around the straightaway Palmer, Leger and Merrihew had the best positions. The track was crowded, however, and in the fight for places Merrihew was thrown from his balance and fell headlong fifteen yards from the finish. At the very end of the race Blumer found an opening, and by powerful and desperate running threw himself...
...magazine. The old-timer will take more pleasure in philosophizing over the past records which follow. It is a pity that the dates are not given in the table of collegiate records. How many Harvard men of today know that Wendell Baker's quarter-mile, though run straightaway, was merely one of a series of extraordinary performances on his part. His records appear on a special board in the meeting room of the Gymnasium, but what reader of the Illustrated would go near the Gymnasium! Kilpatrick's half-mile should scarcely be called a collegiate record. It was made...
...Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock the University crew will row its annual race with Cornell over a two-mile straightaway course on Lake Cayuga. The Cornell crew will be exactly the same eight which defeated the second University crew by a little over a length in a mile and 550 yards course at the American Henley Regatta last Saturday. The University crew will row in its regular order, as Waid returned to No. 7 Thursday...
...Malta Boat Club eight of Philadelphia, and in the New England Challenge Cup race for junior collegiate eights, in which it will row against the Cornell junior university crew and the Pennsylvania second university crew. The races will be rowed over a course of one mile and 550 yards straightaway from the Malta Boat Club to just above the Columbia Bridge. In the first race Severance will row at No. 5, and in the second race, for which he is ineligible, he will be replaced by R. Ellis '09. The crew, which left Thursday, was accompanied by Coach Stephenson...
...followed by the Seniors with 22 1-2 points. The Freshmen scored only 5 1-3 points, their poor showing being largely accounted for by the fact that they were excluded form the 440-yard dash and the distance runs. A high wind blowing directly up the straightaway handicapped both track and field events. On this account the hurdles were run in the opposite of the usual direction...