Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...footballers forced out of bounds. Thereupon, the moat was turned into a cinder track whose unusual depth of ballast surprised one & all by providing a remarkably springy surface. Thus an accident accounts for what many a runner considers the world's fastest track, a smooth, black 440-yd. oval on which in the past two years two successive world's records for the mile have been...
...records smashed were disappointed. Yale's slim Keith Spalding Brown, who holds the world's indoor pole-vaulting record, was outsoared by Southern California's William Graber in a vault-off. Sam Allen of Oklahoma Baptist came nearest to setting a world mark. Over the 120-yd. high hurdles two reserve and one regular timer caught him at 14.1 sec., a tenth of a second better than the record. Unfortunately for Allen, the other two regular timers averaged...
...history of U.S. track & field sports. Slender, coffee-colored Jesse Owens, 21-year-old Ohio State Sophomore, tied one world's record, broke three, and emerged from the meet indisputably the ablest all-around track athlete currently functioning in the U.S. His records: 20.3 sec. for the 220-yd. dash (old record: 20.6 sec.); 22.6 sec. for the 220-yd. low hurdles (old record: 23 sec.); 26 ft., 8¼ in. for the broad jump (old record: 26 ft. 2½in., set by Chuhei Nambu of Japan in 1931). His tie: 9.4 sec. for the 100-yd. dash...
...Owens, he became Jesse when a teacher at Cleveland's Fairmount Junior High School to whom he gave his initials mistook them for his first name. He was too shy to correct her. Before he left high school he had won the U.S. broad-jump title, run 100 yd. in 9.4 sec. The 100-yd. world record, set by Southern California's Frank Wykoff in 1930, has never been broken but it has been tied so frequently that until this spring it appeared closer than any other to a final definition of the speed of a human runner...
...morning, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams put on a pair of old sneakers, hopped into a Star Class yacht, beat the Naval Academy's champion small-boat skipper, Midshipman David Seaman, by 50 yd. in a 2½ mi. race in Annapolis Harbor. In the afternoon, President Roosevelt snuggled down into the referee's launch, streaked up the river from Annapolis to watch three crews, two of them the ablest in the East, race 1¾ miles down the Severn for the Adams Cup. Pennsylvania had beaten Princeton, Yale, Columbia. Navy had beaten...