Word: winner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year J. L. Reid '29, then captain of the squad, was winner in actual time elapsed, breaking his own record for the course by covering the distance in 27 minutes, 28 and 4-5 seconds. In handicap placing, however, he was eighth, while the race was won by Sturtevant Burr '31, now a regular member of the cross country team, who had a handicap of 4 minutes, 20 seconds. His name was the first to be inscribed upon the trophy...
...defeated Syracuse, 24 1-2 to 30 1-2, and New York University 21 to 34. Of its team, Rekers, star runner, placed only fifty-third in the annual meet last year, but has shown exceptional ability this season. Meisinger placed eleventh, and Ratcliff fourteenth. This team was the winner of the I. C. 4A. meet in 1928, although the first three on the team to finish have been graduated...
...accustomed to take even when he wins a fight, was made even more than normally ferocious by a red worm of blood that crawled down into his left eye. In the eighth round he pushed Walker against the ropes, shouted, "Come on and fight." The referee, indicating the winner of each round, thereupon pointed to Hudkins. but after most other rounds he pointed to Walker, lifted Walker's hand...
...Michigan undergraduates saw this, they promptly rushed out on the field, where a fight ensued for the possession of the trophy. After a long tussle, the original owners emerged victorious; but Minnesota was irate. Finally, after discussion, it was decided that the little brown jug should go to the winner of the annual game, to stay in that college's possession for the next 12 months. Ever since them, although the Gophers do not hold their former position of natural rivals, there is always much ado about the jug, and the festivities of the Gopher-Wolverine game hold a high...
...this race, Marshall Kingsbury, star Moses Brown runner, was the first one to cross the line, his time being 21 minutes, 2 3-5 seconds. He ran a front English of Hebron, who finished second and H. Sears of Newark, third place winner, all having the lead at one time or another...