Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major sport, too, is still untouched by this new class spirit. Track continues to attract its ten thousands, perhaps to a great extent by means of the ubiquitous intramural handicap meets. With a fertile field of enthusiasts already engaged in this sport, there is no reason why the coming spring should not carry the individualism of the handicap meet and medal through to its logical conclusion of team development. The throng of not-quite-first-stringers that are carried along semi-officially through the season is particularly large in this sport, which alone among the five major athletic activities offers...
Twenty members of the University and Freshman Cross Country Teams who ran in the meet with Yale will have a dinner at the University Club tonight at 6.30 o'clock as guests of D. F. O'Connell '21, former track captain...
Built for Northern Pacific Railroad, built by American Locomotive Co., the most powerful locomotive in the world will soon be completed. Generating 6,000 horsepower, it could pull, over a level track, a train two miles long. For its thirst it requires 14,400 gallons of water per hour; for its hunger, 20 tons of coal in the same period. Its firebox is the size of a portable garage. With its tender, it weighs one million pounds and is as long as half a city block. Designed chiefly for work on steep grades, it will haul across the Rockies trains...
...letter men here today, Waldo Wittenmeyer Greene, 1930, was unanimously elected captain of the Yale football team for the 1929 season. Greene, who lives in Huntington, Pennsylvania, prepared at Lawrenceville, and was captain of his team there. At Yale, he captained his freshman football team and earned his freshman track numerals. He was the outstanding linesman of his freshman eleven, and during his two years at left guard on the Blue team, he has proved himself deserving of the recognition accorded...
With 15 of last year's letter men available, the winter track team, under the direction of Coach E. L. Farrell and Jaakko Mikkola, started practice this week in an informal way for the strenuous season which lies ahead of it. A large squad, consisting of sixty aspirants for the team, contains a number of promising candidates for the various track and field events...