Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Northwestern University's enormous Patten Gymnasium resounded shrilly with high school cheers. It was the national interscholastic track championships. When the high hurdles were strung out for the 60-yard race, a dusky shadow whisked over them during the heats, and burst the red yarn first in a fleet final. The same shadow flitted through the low hurdles, placed second. Then it took second pace in the high jump and was hero of the meet. This shadow was Runner Loving of Cass Technical High School, Detroit. His teammate, Runner Talan, also a Negro, rushed in second...
Another departure from precedent will be the discarding of sweaters in favor of blazers, which were brought into by the University track team on its invasion of England some years ago. These blazers are to be of a bright...
With the approach of the Spring season, the organizations which have superimposed themselves apon track and field athletics have illustrated a new the incongruity of their connection with amateur sport. The other day, the Western Conference passed a rule forbidding students at any of the colleges under its jurisdiction to participate in meets held under A. A. U. auspices. Though apparently aimed at the bogie of professionalism, this decree was promulgated as a blow to the prestige of the Eastern clubs that comprise the national governing body...
...been cancelled, a through trip to Williamsburg has been decided on. The entire vacation will be spent in Williamsburg, where the team will stay at a hotel and eat at the William and Mary College Commons. The team will also practice twice a day on the William and Mary track, and with the William and Mary athletes, who are anxious to have the benefits of Coach Farrell's training...
With the I.C.A.A.A.A. indoor meet in New York on March 6, the University track team brought to a close its must successful indoor season in recent years. The victory in the triangular meet with Dartmouth and Cornell, and the triumph over all the teams of the east in the intercollegiates were the high spots in the team's winter record...