Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon at 4 o'clock the annual University Handicap Track Meet will get under way at Soldiers Field with the trials in the hurdles and dash events, while tomorrow at the same time the finals and 11 other events as well will be contested. The Handicap meet affords an opportunity for former college athletes in the graduate schools, for Freshmen, and for men on probation or otherwise prevented from intercollegiate competition to stack up against Coach Farrell's present crop of stars, while men of non-squad calibre are aided by liberal handicaps to compete with more experienced athletes...
Seven hundred schoolboy athletes have been entered in the Harvard Interscholastic Track Meet, which will be held in the Stadium on Saturday. This is the largest number get recorded in the 45 years of the meet, and entries are still pouring...
...meet will bring before Harvard eyes several competitors who have been credited with performances that would win them a place on almost any college track team. Among these is John Crowley, of the Roxbury School in Cheshire, Connecticut, who has attained renown in interscholastic circles as a weight man and jumper. He has heaved the 12-pound shot 51 feet 9 inches and the discus well over 140 feet. He can high jump 5 feet 9 inches and has covered over 20 feet in the broad jump. J. S. Birge also of Roxbury School has stepped...
Under a late April sun, three green athletic fields belted by black cinder tracks marked off with whitewashed lines?one field on the Atlantic seaboard, one in the Midwest, one near the Pacific?teemed one afternoon last week with running, jumping, lunging figures in short white pants and varicolored track shirts. At the Penn relays in Philadelphia, the Drake relays in Des Moines, the West Coast relays in Fresno, U. S. athletes had, thrice equalled one world's record, and broken...
...latest intercollegiate league has been begun with the avowed purpose of re-awakening college interest in baseball. With this effort the Harvard Athletic Association can sympathize. College baseball has been failing lately before the gains made by track, tennis and other outdoor spring sports. Whether or not new life can be given it through the medium of a league of leading colleges playing for a championship is a question of which the attempted solution will be watched with attention. H.A.A. News