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...Gourdin '21 captured third place in the hop, step and jump yesterday at the Penn. Relay Carnival with a distance of 48 feet, 6 3-4 inches. Landers of Penn. won the event. Penn. was victorious in the American College Spring Medley Championship in which the Crimson quartet came in fifth. J. M. Watt of Cornell broke the world's record in the 440-yard hurdles, covering the distance in 54 2-5 seconds...
...Won Military Cross...
...spite of the handicap of have to use the Boston Y. M. C. A. pool for practice, the 1920 swimming team was a better aggregation than any that has represented the University since 1916. The season just concluded can hardly be called a success in terms of meets won; get the effort to develop a team resulted in bringing out material which contrasted favorably with previous swimming teams here, and which gives considerable promise...
...defeating in succession Springfield Y. M. C. A. and Williams with the respective scores of 31-32 and 36-17, the Crimson swimmers then succumbed to all save on of their remaining opponents. Amherst, with the aid of Damon, a former intercollegiate champion in the 100-yard dash, won by a score of 38-15, and Brown triumphed in a meet staged in her own tank, 36-17. With several men unable to swim in the M. I. T. meet, the University lost to the engineers, 29-24, the five-point margin going to the winners at the last moment...
...second time since swimming was instituted at Harvard and for the first time since 1914 when the Blue won 48-5, a University meet was scheduled with Yale. The Elis with a team of world and intercollegiate record holders had no difficulty in winning again by the score of 48-5. In the New England Intercollegiates, the University secured three second places, and stood third in the final result with 9 points, Yale being credited with 9 1-2, and M. I. T., the winner, with 16 1-2. In the Intercollegiate Individual Championships, held at New Haven on March...