Word: runner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...completion of the first mile of the race over the three-mile Van Courtlandt Park course, O'Connell took the lead and kept it until the end, winning quite easily by about 100 yards over the second runner, J. Simons of Syracuse. O'Connell's time for the distance was 16 minutes, 12 seconds. The next 1921 harriers to cross the finish line were J. E. Nally and F. L. A. Cady, who were seventh and eighth respectively...
Captain D. F. O'Connell '21 is the star runner of the team and the favorite for first place this afternoon. Last Saturday he came in a winner by a wide margin, establishing a new course record at Belmont. Second place was taken by J. E. Nally...
...race was won by Henigan of the Dorchester Club. D. F. O'Connell '21, Freshman captain, was the first University runner to finish, gaining fifth place. After him came B. Lewis '20, informal captain, eighth in the race, and W. H. Goodwin '20, 11th. The first member of the second team to reach the tape was H. T. Sears '19, who captured 15th place. The other members of both teams finished behind in scattering positions...
Burnham Lewis '20, of Philadelphia, Pa., was unanimously chosen captain of the 1917 informal cross-country team by the squad of runners at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. He was elected to succeed George Anderson King '18, of Washington, D. C., who did not return to college this fall. Lewis has made a remarkable record as a runner in the University; he was captain of the Freshman team last year, and starred by winning every race in which the 1920 team took part, concluding the season with a first place against the Yale Freshman at Belmont in the annual dual meet...
...tickets has begun. Besides the football game, already announced, to be played between teams representing both branches of the service, track events and competitions peculiar to soldiers are scheduled. A relay race with ten men and one man to run 220 yards and an "overcoat relay," in which each runner must remove and pass his overcoat to the next runner, are on the program. Other competitions will include "rescue races" in which teams from Camp Devens will rescue supposedly wounded soldiers...