Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article on the development of long distance running in the United States was written by John F. Moakley, track coach at Cornell. Moakley, track coach at Cornell. Moakley, who has trained some of the leading Intercollegiate distance men of the last 20 years and who was on the coaching staff of the last Olympic team, reviews the records of past stars and discusses the chances W. L. Tibbetts '26, Harvard's crack two-miler has of bettering them in this year's I. C. A. A. A. A. meet...
...often have been asked whether I consider Berna's record to be within the reach of Tibbetts of any other competitor in the forthcoming struggle on May 29. Frankly, such an opinion must be based on pure guesswork, for the weather must be just right, the track fast and the competition keen. An adverse wind would militate against a runner of Tibbetts' comparatively frail physique, but if conditions are ideal it is within the possibilities that the collegiate record will be lowered...
Occasionally the question is brought up as to why the distance runners of the Far West have not seriously threatened the supremacy of the East in the two-mile event as they have done in other branches of track. Some are inclined to the theory that the climate in California is detrimental to distance runners of high caliber. I cannot subscribe to this view. I believe that this backwardness traces to a general lack of schoolboy interest and competition in the distance events in that section. This condition is reflected in the college ranks. When the schoolboys do become interested...
Because of an unavoidable conflict between the track and baseball schedules, the Princeton game and both Yale meets have been arranged for Soldiers Field on the same afternoon...
...avoid the confusion which this conflict would cause it has been decided to have tickets for either event serve for admission to both. Reserved seat coupons for either the track meets or the baseball game will be accepted as tickets for the other and admission stubs will be good for either or both...