Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Track Coach Says Most People Are Born That Way--Cites Many Examples From Careers of Recent Stars...
...following article, reprinted from the current issue of the H. A. A. News, was written by E. L. Farrell, coach of the University Track Team...
...oldest sport in the history of man, and the first sport a person turns to in his life is track--from the minute one is born until one dies, track is a daily occupation for every man. Not everyone is born with a football under his arm, nor is every man able to pull an oar or bat baseballs out of the yard, but 99 44-100 per cent of the world is born with two legs that were intended for hard usage...
...beauty about track is that no previous experience is necessary to make a good runner or field-event man. Any man with a good pair of legs and some brains can be made by proper coaching into a first class runner. The preparatory school star with a reputation does not always prove the best in college circles, because others who are more willing to be taught and have a greater brain capacity can forge right ahead...
Some of the greatest runners on Harvard track teams of recent years were either inexperienced or did not run at all in prep school. F. P. Kane '26 never made his letteer at Andover and yet he won innumerable races and was clocked in 49 1-5 for a quarter in winning the Yale dual meet in 1926. W. L. Tibbetts '26 was a mediocre half-miler at Worcester and the greatest two-miler in the land when he finished college E. C. Haggerty '27, captain of this year's team, never was a great star...