Word: mile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter track season gets underway at 4:15 p.m. this afternoon in Briggs Cage when varsity mile and two-mile relay teams, as well as a freshman mile team, take on strong aggregations from Rhode Island State and Brown. The meet is informal...
Four of the eight varsity runners are sophomores all members of last year's undefeated freshman team. Of these, Ed Grutzner, Ron Harman, and Tom McGrath will run in the mile contest along with senior Harvey Thayer...
...others balked when prospective sponsors wouldn't pay over $50,000 in rights; only once last year--after a sellout house had been assured--did the TV camera follow championship boxing. However, there has been this one compromise: in general, only the setowners within a 50 or 75 mile radius of the stadium are done out of their television, for outside this area the promoters have no worries...
...watered down potpourri of several sports. It combines the speed of racing, the jamming of a six-day bicycle race, the blocking of football, the checking of hockey, and the team-play of basketball. It is played on an oval, highly-banked maconite track, 16 laps to a mile, by two teams of five players each. Each club has two teams--one of men, one of women--which race for alternate 15-minute periods. Two halves of four 15-minute periods each constitute a night's competition...
...Millrose Mile...