Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion of the prospects in the middle distance events of the coming I. C. A. A. A. A. track meet was termed by Coach E. L. Farrell of the University track team as an extremely difficult task, when approached on the subject by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon...
According to statistics made public at Wadsworth House yesterday with regard to the 1931 spring sports, more Freshmen participate in tennis than in any other form of athletic activity. Two hundred and twenty-three men play tennis, while crew and track are the next most popular sports, attracting 138 and 121 first year men respectively...
Died. Frank Lockhart, 26, U. S. automobile racing champion; in an accident, while trying to establish a new record; at Daytona Beach, Fla. Last August he made a track record of 135.5 m. p. h. and in October set eight broad track noncompetitive speed records...
Penn. As a pistol shot started the 175-yard dash at Philadelphia, Charles Paddock jumped away from the line while the nearest spectators leaned over the brick wall of the grandstand to watch him. Badly made and softened by dampness, the wall broke and onto the track tumbled spectators and debris. One old man fell square into the path of Paddock who jumped over him and then swerved to avoid debris, pounded on to cross the finish line in 17 2/5 sec., a world's record...
Jack ("Ruth") Elder, Notre Dame halfback, won the 100-yard dash; the runners of the University of Illinois won three relays and finished second in two others; Walter White of the Kansas Teachers College broke the track record when he tossed the shot...