Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard will not compete in the National Intercollegiate track meet because that meet is held under the rules of the National Collegiate Association, a big democratic organization of which more than a hundred universities and colleges are members. Harvard feels that its personality and powers would be limited in such an organization and that is what Harvard does not want. It will not play if it cannot dictate...
Neither will Yale play football away from home against any football team except Princeton or Harvard, nor will Yale compete in the National Intercollegiate track meet. With probably the best swimming team in the country for the last three years. Yale scorns to compete in the National Intercollegiate championship meet...
...been previously announced, he will make an attempt at a new two mile record on the Stadium track on May 7. Prior to this he expects to spend two weeks at the University studying Harvard methods of instruction, for his primary purpose in this country, is not to run but to prepare himself for the position of Inspector of Public Schools in Sweden, a post for which he is trying...
Last week a cinema actor* crouched on a cinder track at Pomona, Calif. He had been called the world's fastest human. A former Olympic star, he had burnt out, they said. Burnt or no, he would try again. Revolver barked; the cinemaman, sprang, antique legs hurled him onward. Paced by college lads he ran. Presently, head back, teeth set, he leaped through a tape. Timers announced that Charles Paddock (30-odd) had brought the world's record for 250 metres from 31.2 seconds down to 27.6. Southern Californians were pleased. "It's the air," they explained...
...speedy schoolmaster will attempt to set a new world's record on the Stadium track, which is probably the best in the country. He will designate the distance which he will run at a later date...