Word: tape
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mile run J. C. Grew '02 got the lead at the turn for the three-quarter mile. On the back stretch F. S. Buffum '04 took the lead, holding it to the end. About 20 yards from the tape J. W. Foster '03 on a spurt passed Grew and finished second; Buffum won by 4 yards...
...finishing about four yards ahead of the Yale man. This lead was increased by Rust, the fourth relay, to eight yards. Long of Yale caught up with him on the back stretch and the two came round the turn together. About thirty-five yards from the tape Rust by a supreme effort forged gradually ahead and won by about three yards. The times made by each Harvard man follow: Schick, 50 1-5s.; Lightner, 50 4-5s.; Willis, 49 4-5s.; Rust...
...whom we have competed on the other side of the water, have taken up athletics not for a career or a profession but for exercise and sport. Nothing showed this better than the characteristic remark made by Garnier when he was told that he had been beaten on the tape in the hurdles: "Well, I'm sorry," he said, "but after all it was a good race." Our duty as university athletes is, to adapt the words of George Washington, to raise an athletic standard to which the wise and honest can repair...
...mile run Richardson and Foote should secure second and third to Grant of Pennsylvania, with a slight chance of one beating him out at the tape...