Word: wykoff
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...that fast." So said almost everybody in 1896 when Bernie Wefers first ran the ioo-yard dash in 9.4 seconds. Six more times he equaled the present world record, a generation before Frank Wykoff (1930) and Jesse Owens (1935). Watches were checked and verified. But the A.A.U. still called it im possible. Wefers had to be content with an official...