Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes for upsets. But even before the kickoff in Pitt Stadium, Pitt knew better. Sportswriters watched Oklahoma at practice, raced to their typewriters and passed the word. Wrote the Sun-Telegraph's George Kiseda: "The Sooners ran through everything as though they were qualifying for the Olympic 100-meter-dash final. On straight-T pitchouts, their quarterbacks did not just flip the ball to loping halfbacks as ordinary mortals do. Rather, they fired high-speed guided missiles at halfbacks who all seemed to resemble Bobby Morrow...
...Without casual spectators around, but with 20 stop-watch-clicking officials timing his every stroke, Buffalo's George Breen boiled through the water of Yale's 50-meter practice pool and broke his own world record for the mile (19:40.4) with a fast...
...great things in the International Invitation Mile, an added attraction of a London v. New York Track and Field Meet. The entries included three of the world's best middle-distance runners: Czechoslovakia's Stanislav Jungwirth, who had just set a world record for the 1,500 meters (3:38.1); Ireland's Ron Delany, the 1,500-meter Olympic champ; and, of course. Ibbotson. the 25-year-old electrical engineer from Yorkshire, who twice had broken four minutes...
...Hawaii last week, Australia's Olympic Swimming Champion Dawn Fraser broke her 100-yard world record with a time of 56.3, drove on to tie her 100-meter world record of 1:02. In the same meet Teammate Lorraine Crapp, also an Olympic champ, set a world record for the Soo-meter grind in 10:24.3. Dawn and Lorraine later announced that they will enter the U.S. women's outdoor championships next month in Houston...
...fans in the stands at Turku, Finland stirred unhappily at the announcement: both California's Don Bowden, first American miler to crack four minutes (3:58.7), and New Jersey's Tom Courtney, world record holder in the half-mile (1:46.8), were passing up the 1,500-meter event. The crowd had come out to see the Americans and Scandinavians push each other to a new record on the fast, hard-packed track where Australia's John Landy set the mile record of 3:58 in 1954. Fidgeting, the fans sat back to watch the Scandinavians...