Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Coach Farrell's track charges return to Cambridge after the Christmas vacation, it will be to face the official opening of winter practice on January 3. A busy season on the boards is in prospect for the Crimson runners who will have to defend their indoor intercollegiate laurels, won at New York last year...
...annual K. of C. meet in Boston will be the first to test the University track-men, who will run in most of the important meets of the Eastern indoor season. Last year, in addition to annexing the indoor title, Captain Tibbets' men scored a decisive victory in the triangular meet with Dartmouth and Cornell. Prospects for repeating this triumph are bright...
...figures certainly bear out this statement, one which could be made for almost any college in the country. Football showed a net surplus of $358,968, hockey of $309, and the rifle team of $39. Baseball, track, crew, basketball, fencing, lacrosse, polo, soccer", squash, swimming, tennis, and wrestling are all of them almost wholly supported by the revenue of intercollegiate football. The vicious circle at once becomes apparent. Successful football teams and huge stadia to house them form a business activity in which no college can afford to fall. Upon the shoulders of eleven men rests the physical development...
...method of scoring was similar to that used in track meets, the dormitory winning each event being awarded five points, the second receiving three, and the third one. Tennis and rowing were each divided into three competitions, points being awarded for each division. Points were awarded for the number of men in each dormitory who won their numerals...
Besides starring on the football squads of three years, Pratt has also figured heavily in the summary of the track teams, both Freshman and University for the last two years. Against Yale last spring he gained three second places in his specialties, the shot-put, the javelin throw, and the discus event. He also qualified for the Intercollegiates on the following week-end, and though he failed to break into the scoring column in the face of the country's best weight men, he showed sufficient potentiality to make him a serious threat for intercollegiate honors this spring...