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...Pennypacker is Chairman of the Committee on Admissions and has been Chairman of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports since 1924, when he was chosen as successor to Dean L. B. R. Briggs '77. In his senior year in college Mr. Pennypacker won his "H" in track and took first place in the shot put at the intercollegiates held that year...
...June 12, 1899 the Harvard and Yale Athletic Associations received a formal challenge from the athletic heads of Oxford and Cambridge to compete in a track meet in England sometime during the summer. The challenge was subsequently accepted and on July 22 in London the first of a long series of international meets, the latest one of which is scheduled for this summer, was held. The English universities won the meet by a 5 to 4 score-only first places counting and only nine events being scheduled. Since this first encounter between the Oxford-Cambridge and Harvard-Yale track representatives...
...committees of Oxford University Athletic Club and Cambridge University Athletic Club have requested us to forward the following challenge to you for your consideration, and to invite selected representatives of your university club to unite with selected representatives of Yale in forming a joint team to compete in track athletics against a joint team of representatives similarly selected from the athletic clubs of Oxford and Cambridge universities...
...Race-track johnnies recalled that Man o' War won a "walkover" (one-horse-race) at Belmont Park in his prime, that Exterminator captured the Saratoga Cup in 1921 without opposition. Walkovers are made possible by the racetrack rule that once a race is scheduled it must be run, weather permitting, unless each and every entry drops...
With the substitution of G. W. Smith '29 for R. P. Porter '29 in the half-mile run, the personnel of the Harvard-Yale track team which will meet the Oxford-Cambridge forces at Stamford Bridge, England, on July 9, is practically complete. One place in the 220-yards hurdles is still disputed between Sherman and Wood of Yale, but the athletes for the other positions have been definitely chosen...