Word: sprinters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Elken, University substitute, has been added to the list of invalids; a minor injury to his leg bothering him considerably. B. Z. Nelson '15, the sprinter, has reported for football and an effort will be made to develop him as backfield material...
...with C. A. Willetts, scored a clean sweep for Yale in the finals of this event. Two Harvard men, Barron and J. L. Foley '15 reached the finals of the 100-yard dash, but the latter was unable to place. Barron won from T. H. Cornell, Yale's best sprinter, by about two yards. The 220-yard dash was much like the 100, except that Foley secured a point by finishing just behind Cornell...
...Relays is this year much more general than ever before. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Chicago, Illinois, and many other big colleges have entered very fast relay teams. The University of Southern California has entered two exceptional runners, Kelly, the Olympic hurdle champion, and Drew, the phenomenal colored sprinter, considered to be the fastest man for 100 yards in America...
...over in his mind all the winners of athletic events he can think of, and select from them one that he considers fitted for the office. Yet, unconsciously, what he does is not very different from this. the reason is, not so much his desire to recognize the best sprinter in his class as his ignorance of any of his classmates, outside of his personal circle, except those whose names he has seen in athletic connections. To this must possibly be added another consideration. Even if he should recall the name of some one who had won honors for scholarship...
Quinn's greatest athletic specialty was trick and fancy skating, and before coming to Harvard he filled several public engagements in exhibitions. Although Quinn weighed only 140 pounds and was only 5 feet, 8 inches tall, he had many good track records. He was a sprinter as well as a weight thrower and jumper. His records, some of them unofficial, include the following: broad jump, 24 ft., 1-8 in.; high jump, 6 ft., 1 58 in.; pole-vault, 11 ft., 4 in.; high hurdles, 16 3-5 sec.; 100-yard dash, 10 3-5 sec.; 440-yard dash...