Word: tape
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...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 across the tape ahead of Palmer. Leger and Kelley held their positions ahead of deSelding and the two Cornell men and took third and fourth respectively. If fewer men had been in the race the time would probably have been faster as there would have been less crowding...
...being a surprise. Howe got a bad start and ran third for most of the distance. Hartranft of Pennsylvania led all the way and won in 15 4-5 seconds. Dwight of Princeton held second place until the last hurdle, when Howe overhauled him. In the race for the tape Howe won by inches. Piper of Harvard was fourth. The first heat was somewhat similar, as Rand was behind Robbins of Yale for the first part of the race. Talcott of Cornell won the heat with Rand second. The finals found all four men in their best form. Hartranft...
...interest in the event. Harvard, Princeton, and Pennsylvania had two men each in the final heat. Foster and Dawbarn ran side by side until fifty yards from the end, when the former drew away and won by several yards. Minds was third by a safe margin, and at the tape Watson beat out Gamble and Newell for fourth...
...close finish C. F. Averill '12 won from the 15-foot mark in 4 3-5 seconds. In the finals of the 45-yard high hurdles, O. M. Chadwick '11, with 12 feet handicap, led almost to the finish, but W. M. Rand '09 passed him just at the tape, winning in the fast time of 6 seconds, equalling the record...
...finals in the 260-yard dash and a close race resulted, in which there were several collisions on the corners. L. H. Baker '11, G. E. Morrison '12, H. H. Heath '11, and F. Fallon '10 came to the last corner together, but Baker fell just before the tape, with the other men finishing in the good time of 32 seconds...