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...sissy art." He set out to form an all-male troupe as soon as the Denishawn chapter was closed. He wanted real men, not half men. So to start clean he left Manhattan, went to the Y. M. C. A. College in Springfield, Mass., where he talked to trackmen, wrestlers, footballers. Dancing, he argued, was originally a male prerogative, forbidden to women. Primitive men have always danced as a natural part of their worship. The young athletes who followed Shawn to his farm in the Berkshires knew that they would often be ridiculed, that they were entering a life which...
...four Princeton and four Pennsylvania trackmen found a way to make their competition more exciting-by running against each other successively by twos in a mile race instead of simultaneously at 440 yards. That was the origin of modern relay racing, since become the most popular form of intercollegiate track competition, and the beginning...
Eddle Farrell sends his trackmen into their first spring competition on Friday of this week, when they face Boston College, M.I.T., and Northeastern at the Harvard Stadium for the Greater Boston Intercollegiates. Trials of the Varsity events and of the Freshman events will be run off early in the afternoon, with the finals of the first year men late in the afternoon. Finals of the Varsity events will take place on Saturday...
...April 26 and 27, the trackmen face Boston College, Boston University. Tufts, Amherst, and Northestern at the Greater Boston Intercollegiates...
Outspeeding and outheaving the Audover trackmen, the Freshmen swamped their rivals 51 1-2 to 29 1-2, gaining all but two firsts...