Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legs on the straightaway, unless he acquires a correct balance around turns, leaning neither too much nor too little, unless he shortens his stride with the inside leg, the runner should stay out in the open. Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland", bone specialist, U. S. 1,000-yd. champion, has an ideal stride for indoor track but he has only recently recovered from an attack of bronchitis. He withdrew from the 1,000-yd. race and placed only third in the two-mi, steeplechase. To some of the foreign athletes, however, boards were new. Seraphin Martin of France was second...
...races left new marks in the world record book as well as in the pine track: the 70-yd high hurdles, and the 1⅞-mi. relay. Lanky, pale-faced Percy Beard of Alabama equalled the world record in both his heats for the hurdles and then led dark-haired Lee Sentman, last year's champion, and Gene Record of Harvard, intercollegiate outdoor champion, in the final. His time of 8.5 sec. took one-tenth of a second off the U. S. record. The Penn Relay team won their race easily. They were anchored by Carl Coan who, generally...
...Dame had won 18 straight games in two seasons, was thought to be tired. Instead, Knute Rockne's various prancing backfielders at once bewildered the over-rated Trojans with brilliant plays, throwing for losses Southern California's famed Plungers Plinckert and Duffield. Marchmont Schwartz flipped an 11-yd. pass to Quarterback Carideo who trotted eight yards farther for the first touchdown. They made three more after that. Their own goal was never in danger. Notre Dame 27, Southern California 0. Getting up speed for their charity game with Army, the Navy plungers slammed through the Penn line, tossed...
Once Washington drove down the field to the 20-yd. line, and once to the 1-yd. line, but Southern California kept safe the score piled up by Quarterback Duffield's plunging and Mohler's flashy runs. Southern California 32, Washington...
...Coach Richard Hanley's birthday week; his brother was on the team; he begged for victory. For 53 minutes his Northwesterners, unbeaten in their Big Ten games, outcharged, outkicked, held scoreless the great Notre Dame team. Twice they lost the ball inside the enemy 5-yd. line in the second period. Then, in the last period, Notre Dame's Schwartz got away and ran 28 yards to break the tie, and a little later Notre Dame's Dan Hanley made the score that beat Northwestern's Hanleys...