Word: tracking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...TRACK EVENTS...
...Also forms of exercise which can be kept up easily until late in life will be selected as well as those which are difficult to continue after leaving college, on account of the elaborate equipment or large number of contestants required. According to such plans, rowing, tennis, hockey, swimming, track events, and soccer will be encouraged, and in winter basketball, squash and squash racquets, boxing, fencing, wrestling and gymnasium work...
...here join forces with those from the United States to form the complete American team. After the final selection, following the competitive tests, the entire aggregation will be under the direction of Lieut. Richard L. Byrd, champion discuss thrower, who has been appointed captain of the A. E. F. track and field squad for the interallied contests...
...games are taking on the aspect of an Olympic meet, with every allied nation presenting a notable array of stars. The American Expeditionary Force organization numbers among its athletes such well-known track men as Lieut. Harry Worthington of Dartmouth, three times national and intercollegiate broad jump champion; Pat Ryan, holder of five world's records in the hammer-throw; F. C. Thompson, all-round athletic champion of the A. A. U.; and Lieut. P. R. Withington '12, former University track captain and two-mile champion...
...Moore Ooc., captain of the University track team, has been selected as a competitor in the inter-allied athletic games to be held in the Pershing Stadium at Joinville-le-Pont, near Paris, from June 22 to July 6. He is one of a team which has been organized under the direction of General Peyton C. March, and which will be composed of 50 of the most prominent track athletes who were in the United States Army during...