Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incapacity of White for a month or more during his convalescence, deale what may prove to be a fatal blow to Harvard's possibilities for victories over Yale on May 12 and 30, and for a win in the intercollegiate outdoor championship games to be played off in June...
...most efficient long distance runner in the U. S. Far behind De Mar plodded Jimmy Henigan who had been running in marathons for eight years but had never finished among the leaders. Before the race he had told a friend that he was going to win or break a blood vessel...
...rubbing table his thigh and calf muscles contracted and knotted like wires that have been sustaining a tension and suddenly cut. It seemed as if he would never get back his breath. When he did he said, "What I want to do is get to Amsterdam and win the Olympic Marathon...
...Harvard professors, and two Yale professors, will be taken simultaneously at Cambridge and New Haven by the contestants. The neutral judges, Professor Osgood, Professor A. K. Potter of Brown and Professor J. O. Adams of Cornell, will decide on the award of the prize. The victorious team will win for its college library $5000 worth of books, besides which individual prizes will be given to the members of the team...
...when questioned by reporters regarding the game, said: "I see no reason for the odds being 5 to 1 on the Harvards, for in a game like this it is always possible for the metrical breaks to decide victory. It looks like a swell clash. May the best team win...