Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale is reported to have a strong team; but last Saturday the Blue was decisively defeated in a dual meet by Cornell, 19 to 54. O'Brien, star runner of the Elis, however, did not participate in the race...
Last Saturday the Yale harriers were defeated in a dual meet by, Cornel O'Brien, star runner for the Blue, war held from the race, however...
...Director of the investigation was Carnegie staff member Howard James Savage, onetime English teacher (Harvard, Bryn Mawr), Encyclopedia Britannica contributor (U. S. Athletic Sports). Other field workers: John Terence McGovern, oldtime Cornell runner (1900), member of U. S. Olympic Commission (1921), Encyclopedia contributor (Track and Field Sports); Harold W. Bentley, Columbia University Spanish Instructor, Encyclopedia contributor (Sports); Dean F. Smiley, M. D., Cornell medical adviser. The Bulletin's preface was written by Carnegie Foundation President Henry Smith Pritchett himself, famed Astronomer, onetime (1900-1906) President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...started the 4,800-mi. National Air Reliability Tour of 1929 at Detroit, reached their Detroit goal in a heavy rain last week. Winner of the Edsel Ford Trophy and $2,500 cash was swarthy John Henry Livingston, 31, of Aurora, III, who flew a Wright-motored Waco biplane. Runner-up planes were (in order) : Waco, Ford, Curtiss Condor, Bellanca, Bellanca, Command-Aire, Kreider-Reisner, Spartan, Ford. Although losers yammered about the method of scoring, the Tour did disclose the characteristics of the planes in quick takeoffs, slow landings, load-carrying and other factors useful to commercial aviation...
...this race, Marshall Kingsbury, star Moses Brown runner, was the first one to cross the line, his time being 21 minutes, 2 3-5 seconds. He ran a front English of Hebron, who finished second and H. Sears of Newark, third place winner, all having the lead at one time or another...