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Ranking high among these are the achievements of Harvard trackmen. The team started strong and has continued to improve. Their record is now 7-0, and they have shattered several running records...
...Crimson trackmen rolled to their third victory in as many tries Saturday with a 74-35 pasting of Boston College in Briggs Cage...
...varsity trackmen walloped a good Army squad Saturday and now they've gotten cocky. Amoeba-like, the Crimson will split into two teams at 6 o'clock tonight when both Boston University and Providence College visit Briggs Cage for separate dual meets...
...trackmen at Tokyo, the one rated least likely to succeed was Billy Mills, 26, a Marine lieutenant entered in the 10,000-meter run. No American had ever won the Olympic 10,000 (or even placed better than sixth), and the experts wondered why Mills even bothered to show up. A half Sioux Indian from South Dakota, he was only a so-so runner at the University of Kansas, failed to make the U.S. team in the 5,000 meters, won a trip to Tokyo when he finished a distant second behind Gerry Lindgren...
...began, "dance choreography was predominantly feminine; it was like music with nothing but strings and woodwinds. It needed the brasses and drums of the male role." So in 1933 he set out to supply them. Picking his first all-male crew for sheer muscle-they included football players, trackmen, gymnasts-he installed them at Jacob's Pillow, a rundown, 150-acre 18th century farmstead he had bought three years before. There each summer he honed the troupe with dancing all morning, farm chores all afternoon. "I wanted to see," he says, "if the American man in plain brown pants...