Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual spring interdormitory track meet for Freshmen will be held today and tomorrow on Soldiers Field. The competition will start at 2 o'clock when the field event men get into action. The track entrants do not compete until tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock...
Charles Paddock, America's foremost sprinter announced definitely last night that he would not run in a special invitation dash on Saturday at the Harvard Stadium. But according to the present plans, he may try out the University track some afternoon this week...
When questioned about the strength of the American Olympic material, Paddock replied, "the backbone of the 1928 track forces will be formed by the weight men. Barring accidents and last-minute upsets, the United States should gather a sufficient number of points in the field events to lead the field. To win, we must defeat Finland and Germany. Koenig, of Germany, will give the American sprinters their stiffest opposition...
Charles Paddock of Los Angeles, acclaimed by Grantland Rice "the fastest human of all time," who is appearing this week at Lowe's State Theatre in Boston, will don his running togs to try out the Stadium track some time this week and will probably talk to the University track track candidates at that time, it was announced last night...
...shells have been on the river for weeks; roadsters gleaming with nickel are not rare--still they attract the attention of undergraduates. And so, when Charlle Paddock comes to the Stadium this week, he need have no fear that his ninety-five records will attract only a handful of track men and a bored reporter. The Stadium will not give a hollow echo to the spikes, for herocpass, but some remnants of hero-worship are not to be destroyed even by a four-year course in indifference...