Word: trackman
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While ten Harvard trackman uphold her reputation overseas, two of their teammates will vie with American athletes on the west coast as the nation's best eiuderman gather for the N.C.A.A. meet...
Ward, son of a Ford factory worker, an A student in political science who is even more famed as a trackman than footballer, sat calmly in a radio booth, watched his teammates defeat the Southerners...
...middle-distance runner, Glenn Cunningham, who at the age of 8 was so badly burned in a schoolhouse fire that he was never expected to walk again. To develop his scarred legs he took up running, even learned to play football. But because he developed into such an expert trackman coaches forbade him to play football for fear he would get hurt...
...Olympic teams, stopped his car in a Philadelphia suburb to help a little man who lay groaning in the road where he had been thrown from the running board of a car hit by another. Bending over, Robertson saw that the man was William Arthur Carr, the greatest trackman Robertson had ever trained, who last year broke the world's record for the 400-meter run in the Olympics when he ran Benjamin Bangs Eastman into the ground (TIME, Aug. 15). Coach Robertson lifted Carr in his arms, carried him to his own car, drove him to a hospital...
Died. John Riegel Dewitt, 48, famed Princeton footballer and trackman, hero of the game in 1903 when Princeton beat Yale for the first time in four years; of heart failure, on the way to see a heart specialist, in the club car of his morning train from Fairneld, Conn, to Manhattan...