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...some of their most formidable material and at the suggestion of the University the later date was offered to enable them to present a complete line-up. Among the men whom the Harvard-Yale forces will have most to fear in the meet are Porritt, the sensational New Zealand sprinter who last year broke the 100-yard record in the English dual meet and captured second in both the hurdle events, Lord Burnham, who holds a 12-foot pole vaulting record, and Lowe, the English captain and star hurdler...
...best athletes I've known," said Coach Farrell of the track team in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday. "His versatility is shown by the different events he has taken part in. He is a high-jumper, a pole-vaulter, broad-jumper, shot-putter, and sprinter. And beside that, he is a Phi Beta Kappa...
...Indeed, the university whose manner of encouraging her sons had so piqued the representatives of the other colleges had mighty men in her service. There was Albert ("Truck") Miller, 200-pound sprinter ; Jeff Fletcher, high-hurdle star; "Soapy" Watters, Olympic middle-distance competitor; Bill Tibbetts, sturdy two-miler. Nevertheless, Emerson Norton, Georgetowner, performed ably in two events (pole vault, running high jump) ; the Georgetown two-mile relay team broke the world's indoor record (time: 7 min., 41 6-10 sec.) ; her one-mile relay team took first place. Harvard was vanquished. Nelson B. Sherrill of Pennsylvania broke...
...first-year men will meet stiff opposition from the schoolboys in today's meet. Andover possesses the fastest sprinter in preparatory school ranks in the person of Charles Borah and two experienced hurdlers, Weston Faxton and D. A. Foxhall, who may prove the undoing of the Freshman runners...
Joie Ray, U.S. runner, shot from the starting line like a sprinter running a dash, circled five laps of Madison Square Garden without slackening. Behind him came three runners. Behind them came Nurmi. The crowd roared. Ray was the favorite. Was it not a ¾ mile race?his best distance? Had not his world's record (3 min. 5 sec.) stood unmenaced for eight years? On, on went Ray; he was two laps from the end, one lap. Then suddenly, soundlessly, a great wind passed him. Woefully he looked upon a pair of heels, the heels of Paavo Nurmi. Eight...