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Yale won the dual track meet at the Stadium last spring with a 12-point margin. In ten days seven of last year's Blue scorers will again face Harvard, this time at New Haven. For the Crimson, nine veteran point winners will compete...
Crimson supporters follow another line of reasoning. Princeton defeated Yale 70-65 and won over Harvard with a two-third point larger margin. These comparative scores predict practically a tie between Harvard and Yale. Crimson followers also point to the fact that 12 of Yale's points in the Intercollegiates were gathered by one man, Norton. A first, second, and third count more for an individual college in an intercollegiate meet than they do in a dual meet. Whereas Harvard scored no one in either of the sprints at the Intercollegiates or in the broad jump, in the dual meet...
Kane and Allen were eliminated in the trials for the quarter. Allen ran especially well in his heat but failed to get into second place by a bare margin in a very closely contested finish. The heat was won by Ascher of Georgetown who took third in the finals the following afternoon only three yards behind the winner. Fletcher, the University entrant in the low hurdles also failed to qualify...
...first position he ran easily in fourth or fifth place, always within striking distance of the leader. It was not until the final stretch that the Crimson runner tore loose from the field and took the lead with a sprint that gave him a margin of ten yards as he broke the tape in 4 minutes 25 and seven-tenths seconds. Second was taken by Theopold of Columbia and Cavanaugh finished fifth...
...crews entered in the American Henley in Philadelphia Saturday came through a winner, the performance of the Second and 150-pound eights was eminently satisfactory from a Crimson point of view. Coach Stevens' Second boat lost to powerful eights from Syracuse and the University of Pennsylvania by the narrow margin of a length, but finished ahead of Navy and Princeton. The Crimson 150- pound oarsmen lost to the undefeated Red and Blue crew, but led Yale, Princeton, and Columbia across the line...