Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following is the second of two articles dealing with the history of the Triangular track meet. The first article, published in last Friday's Crimson, brought the survey up to the 1924 classic. This article brings the review to a conclusion...
...Harvard Track Reaches Acme...
...Coach Farrell had laid the foundation for the brilliant 1925 season, a which it can truly be said that Harvard track has never reached a higher point than it did in the Triangular meet on Saturday night, February 28. When it was all over Coach Farrell said, "I have never seen a better Harvard track team. I have never seen a finer group of men than made up that team." At a dinner at the Varsity Club on the night of Thursday, February 20, he had previously said to both the University and Freshman track squads. "I'm sure...
...Tibbetts '26 is perhaps the greatest of Crimson two-milers and distance men. A lean, wiry, middle-height individual, with a smooth untiring stride, he has run some of the finest races in Crimson track history. In the Triangular meet of 1925 he was destined to score the fourth new record. He came up against the widely heralded entry from Hanover, Osgood, who had smashed the Dartmouth record a week before, and against Craig of Cornell. The race turned out to be one of Tibbetts against time, in which the former won by 11 2-5 seconds...
...before the 1923-1924 track season that Coach Farrell assumed the position of head coach of the University runners and weight men. He immediately set to work with the promising material at hand J. N. Watters '26, C. A. C. Eastman '24, B. R. Cutcheon '25, R. L. Hyatt '24, R. G. Allen '26, H. T. Dunker '25 and Jefferson Fletcher '25 have all played prominent roles in Crimson track history. In the first year of Coach Farrell's teaching they were to be the nucleus of a strong team. Moreover, at this time, one of the major lights...