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Word: tracked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some people think of the Preakness as a preliminary to the Kentucky Derby but not the people who last week stood jammed along the fences of the Pimlico track in Maryland while two horses moved round the turn into the stretch, with the little jockeys hunched forward and moving their legs like frogs swimming-Ambrose on Edward Beale. McLean's Toro, Workman on Harry Payne Whitney's Victorian. Noses together, so close the jockeys could have whispered to each other, the humping horses moved toward the wire; nobody could tell which had won the $61,000 stake until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Preakness | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Henry Chalfant Jr. '31, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been appointed Freshman track manager at the close of the spring competition, it was announced last night. Chalfant prepared at St. Paul's School, and last fall won the position of second assistant Freshman football manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHALFANT RECEIVES 1931 TRACK MANAGER'S POSITION | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...following statements were made to the Crimson last night by Coach E.L. Farrell of the University track team, and Coach George Connors of Yale on the eve of the thirty-fifth Harvard-Yale dual meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARRELL AND CONNORS COMMENT | 5/19/1928 | See Source »

Harvard football will make its final gesture for the spring of 1928 when members of the University squad assemble at the Stadium at 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon to compete in the first track meet ever held for football players at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FOOTBALL PLAYERS TO COMPETE IN TRACK MEET | 5/19/1928 | See Source »

Football is a game of unending upsets and contradictions, baseball games may turn on the uncertain news of a pitcher or on an irregularity in the ground, but in track the dopesters and the mathematician may stiff command attention. Track performances vary, but they usually vary within limits. And it is these limits that give purpose and excuse to the pre-meet mathematicians who about this time of year begin to flood the sporting pages with their carefully weighed prognostications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DOPE SWEET | 5/18/1928 | See Source »

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