Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). N.C.A.A. Indoor Track and Field championships, from Cobo Arena in Detroit, Mich...
...nervous normalcy" to which more isolated province capitals have grown accustomed. Most businesses have reopened, but stocks are low. The western one-third of the Chinese quarter of Cholon is still insecure at night, the work of several hundred Viet Cong who are still holed up around the race track. Saigon lost, it is now estimated, 6,300 civilians during the fighting; another 11,000 were wounded...
Harvard's sudden and complete domination of intercollegiate track was traced to two factors: the completion of a five-lap cinder track on Harvard's Jarvis Field and Evert J. Wendell '28's appearance at Harvard. Wendell's enthusiasm and organizational knack put Harvard track on its feet, and his talent gave the Crimson its first victory in the Intercollegiates. In the 1880 meet, Wendell himself won three of the six first places--in the 100, which he ran in 10 seconds flat long before the advent of the crouching start...
...early 1890's, Harvard's domination of college track began to wane. The Golden Age began to tarnish after the Crimson's 11th Intercollegiate title in 1892--its last for a long time. For the next four years, Harvard struggled to stay in contention. Then, in 1896--its last pressive last gasp effort that would be followed by a sustained slump in the track department--Harvard's tiny contingent to the first of the modern Olympic Games in Athens picked up five gold medals...
With the turn of the century, the Golden Age breathed its last, and Harvard track slipped into obscurity. There have been the individual greats along the way since--athletes like Edward O. Gourdin '21, whose 25'3" broad jump in 1921 set a wrold record. But the days of Harvard-the-team-power are long gone--or were until this year. Who's to say but that the next few years may prove to be the "Renaissance" of Harvard track...