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...past two weeks the track candidates have practiced regularly along the Boylston street sidewalk and on the track underneath the Stadium, while the weight men have worked daily under the supervision of Mr. Quinn. Although the hurdlers have done no actual hurdling as yet, they have practiced their stride in short sprints...
During the week Coach Lathrop has been systematizing the squad so that individual attention may be devoted to each candidate. The sprinters have been running easy stretches and the hurdlers are practicing their stride and paying special attention to form. On Thursday E. H. Clark '96 and W. F. Garcelon '95 coached the weight men and hurdlers, respectively. The squad of milers and two milers on Thursday for the first time ran 12 laps around the track, a distance of three miles. Next week Mr. Clark will devote more time to the weight men, who up to now have...
...barely defeating G. S. Morrison 3Dn., who started 5 yards back of the line. The low hurdles were won by W. McPherson '07, with a handicap of 6 yards, in 26 3-5 seconds. J. F. Doyle '07, scratch, who was rapidly overtaking McPherson, was unable to recover his stride after clearing the last hurdle...
...yards hurdles was the most interesting event of the afternoon. It was a close race between J. G. Willis '02 and F. B. Scheuber '05. About half way Scheuber missed his stride and took his hurdle with the wrong foot. This gave Willis a slight lead which he maintained to the end. In the 440 yards run M. T. Lightner '03 led throughout with E. C. Rust '04 second. Rust was hindered from challenging Lightner in the stretch owing to an accident to his running suit...
...play in the Bowdoin game. Especially noticeable was the brace taken by the backs in the last five minutes of the practice. They put all possible energy into their running, started with the ball, not after it, and in bucking the line kept low. The linemen also made a stride forward by getting the start on their opponents and charging them back into their own territory. The result was the more gratifying, in the sense that the men thus responded to the efforts of the coaches to show the importance of the principle. Owing partly to the fact that...