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...present the University with 14 men accepted leads the other American colleges as to representation in the Unit. Princeton is second with nine students accepted, the Institute of Technology third with eight, and Columbia fourth with six. Yale will send five men, the University of Michigan three, Georgia Tech two, and Cornell and the Universities of California and Texas each one. Henry Corse Jr., a New York architect, has been officially appointed leader of the Unit...
...jump he and Fitts tied for first at 5 feet 9 1-4 inches. Both men could have gone higher if necessary, but thought it better to conserve their strength for the other events. Fitts won the 220-yard low hurdles in 22 2-5 seconds, barely beating Chittick, Tech's sprinter-hurdler, at the tape, while Whitney came in a close third...
Although the University's strength was massed in the field events, scoring 31 points here to Tech's 14, the performance of the Crimson runners in the track events was very gratifying, and they would have won the meet by four points had the result depended upon these alone. Only in the quarter-mile did they fall to score either a first or a second. Bayard Wharton and Spitz got the jump on the other runners in this event, and raced neck and neck down the first straight-away several yards ahead of the rest. Wharton slowed...
Captain O'Connell of the University and Captain MacMahon of Tech had no one to dispute their winning of the mile and two-mile races, but some excitement was furnished by the race for second place in the longer event. MacMahon led all the way here, with Hendric of M. I. T., C. E. Reycroft '21 and H. M. Mahon '22 following him at some distance in that order, until the last lap. Here Reycroft dropped behind, after having run a fine race, and Mahon and Hendrle started to fight for the second place. It was a struggle...
...half-mile race also furnished some thrills in the way of a fighting finish. W. C. Bennett '23 led for the first half of the distance, but here the pace became too fast and he dropped behind, Bawden to Tech taking the lead and carrying along A. J. Fox '21 with him. It was a struggle all the way down the home stretch; but Fox weakened toward the end and barely led H. F. Colt '22 across the line...