Word: miles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captain, Phil Edwards, a wiry Negro, dashed the half-mile in 1 min., 52 2/10 sec., breaking the intercollegiate record set in 1916 by famed James E. (Ted) Meredith. Stanford's Harlow Rothert put the 16-lb. shot 50 ft. 3 in. For 51 years college athletes had tried in vain to better 50 ft. Last year Rothert's teammate, Eric Krenz, succeeded with a heave of 50 ft. 1 in. This year Rothert broke that record twice in one sunshiny afternoon. Krenz came second with 50 ft. 5/8 in. Captain Jimmy Reid of Harvard, intercollegiate title holder...
...finished fifth in the quarter-mile...
...grandstands were hot. The 2½-mile brick speedway was baking. The audience of 160,000 sweltered. But around and around the track droned 33 little automobiles, each driven by a man cool of nerve and body, competitor in the annual 500-mile Memorial Day motor race at Indianapolis-longest, most racking of U. S. motor contests...
...second Harvard crew went down the four-mile course at a stroke of 26 just before the University boat had its trial. No time was taken for this shell...
...morning the Harvard crews paddled down to the two-mile mark in several stretches. The water was rough, kicked up by a stiff breeze. Prior to the time rows in the afternoon both crews paddled down to the bridge, with conditions more favorable...