Word: mile
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cornell's victory did not obscure, however, the most spectacular race of the day, in which Dennis F. O'Connell '21 making the best time he had ever done in the mile, passed Crawford of Lafayette, who had been picked to win, on the last stretch and broke the tape two feet ahead of his opponent. O'Connell at the start ran in fourth place but at the half-way mark passed McDermott of Cornell and Bartels of Johns Hopkins into second place; and except for a premature spurt by O'Brien of Yale on the last...
...Half-mile run--1 minute, 53 seconds. James E. Meredith, Pennsylvania...
...mile run--4 minutes, 14 and 2-5 seconds. J. P. Jones, Cornell, Cambridge, Mass...
...mile run--9 minutes, 23 and 4-5 seconds. J. L. Hoffmire, Cornell, Cambridge, Mass...
...Lieut. Harry Worthington of Dartmouth, three times national and intercollegiate broad jump champion; Pat Ryan, holder of five world's records in the hammer-throw; F. C. Thompson, all-round athletic champion of the A. A. U.; and Lieut. P. R. Withington '12, former University track captain and two-mile champion...