Word: yales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dyke Benjamin, barely recovered from a leg injury which has hobbled him all season, ran a splendid 9:28.9 in the two-mile to finish second to John Morrison, who set a Yale and Coxe Cage record of 9:26.3. Benjamin had not been able to run at all until ten days ago, when he began to work out on grass. Competing with virtually no practice, he battled Morrison down to the last laps...
Battling against the formidable combination of Yale strength and injuries to key Crimson performers, the varsity track squad put on a tremendous display of courage and perseverance before losing to the Bulldogs, 72 1/3 to 55 2/3, last Saturday at New Haven. Princeton was a distant third with nine points...
Joel Landau watched Yale's Keith Moore equal the Coxe Cage 60-yard hurdle record of 7.3 in a preliminary heat and then soundly defeated his rival in the final. A University record was tied in a dash heat, when Sandy Dodge covered the 60 yards in 6.3 seconds...
...Mark Mullin and Bob Knapp, the Yardlings finished first in their meet with 56 points. Yale was second with 45 1/2, and Princeton registered...
After Owner-Editor Ogden Reid died in 1947, popping off went out of style at the Trib. Classmates of Whitelaw Reid (Yale '36), Ogden's son, began showing up on the payroll-even on Woodward's staff. In 1948, during an economy wave, the management suggested that Woodward trim off a few sports hands, asked him for names. Barked the Coach: "Red Smith and me." Not long after that, Whitelaw Reid found a name for the trim list: Rufus Stanley Woodward. The new sports editor was Robert Cooke (Yale...