Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tackle 58 yards for a touchdown. But the powerful Redskins had too much ammunition for a bunch of soldiers with only three weeks' practice. They blasted them from the air (23 completed passes), mowed them down on the ground, kicked two perfect field goals-one from the 24-yd. line, another from the 27. Score: Redskins, 26; All-Army...
Chest Out. Preflight's track is not the track of the Olympic Games but a specialty called military track. Its main event, the 60-yd. obstacle run, is the most grueling thing in the preflight program. Its 25 obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time...
...Stanford University in the early '30s, Will Jr. set a 100-yd. backstroke swimming record that still stands, was a four-goal man on the polo team. For a while he edited an off-the-campus paper stridently called New, once scooped the college and West Coast newspapers by tracking down a "kidnapped" college queen. He graduated from college in 1935, the year his father died with Wiley Post in the Point Barrow, Alaska plane crash. With his share of the estate he bought the Citizen, was a full-fledged publisher at 23. He kept a union shop, covered...
...Ewell, for the third year in a row, won the 100-yd. dash, 220-yd. dash and broad jump bringing his accumulation of Intercollegiate titles (indoors and out) to an even dozen, a feat no other track star has ever accomplished...
...track meet; setting a new meet record for the half-mile (1 min., 25.9 sec.); at Des Moines, Iowa. In a special invitation race, Roy Cochran, onetime Indiana University star, now wearing the colors of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, chalked up 52:2 for the 440-yd. -a new world's record...