Athletic History
This Day in Track & Field-December 25 (Merry Christmas), Born this Day: Kaarlo Maaninka (1953), Kathy Franey-Fleming (1967), Mark Wieczorek (1984),
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This Day in Track & Field, December 24, Birthdays of Allie Ostrander (1996), Christina Schwanitz (1985), Wallace Spearmon (1984), by Walt Murphy
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This Day in Track & Field, December 23, Frosh Tom O’Hara wins Ted Haydon Mile (1960), birthdays of Lisa Dobiskey (1983), and Rick Wolhuter (1948), by Walt Murphy
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This Day in Track & Field, X-Country, December 3, Derek Clayton sets Marathon WR (1967), Brad Schlapak wins US XC (1995)), by Walt Murphy
This Day in Track & Field/X-Country-December 3 1950-Brazil’s Adhemar da Silva set the first of his 5 World Records in the...
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This Day in Track & Field History, December 1, Ron Delany wins 1956 Olympic 1,500 meters, Jacki Hansen sets Marathon WR (1974), by Walt Murphy News & Results Services
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This Day in Track & Field/X-Country-November 26, a Dramatic 800 meters (1956), Tom O’Hara won NCAA XC (1962),
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This Day in Track & Field/X-Country–November 25, William Way runs WR at 880 yards (1859), 1908 Olympic Marathon rematch in Madison Square Gardens (1908), Gil Dodds wins NCAA XC (1940), by Walt Murphy News and Results Services
This Day in Track & Field/X-Country--November 25 1859--Leading from the start, Great Britain’s William Way ran 2:04.0 at Oxford...
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This Day in Track & Field, November 11, First Track & Field Meet in U.S. (1868), Lon Myers sets AR at Mile (1882), Bill Leahy breaks 13 minutes on Van Cortlandt Park XC course (1963), by Walt Murphy’s News & Results Services
This Day in Track & Field-November 11 1868--From Wally Donovan’s History of Indoor Track & Field https://www.amazon.com/history-indoor-track-field/dp/B0006CJ3TG “On a...
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This Day in Track & Field, November 10, Walter George sets 10m WR of 52;53 (1883), Steve Foster wins NCAA Div III XC (1973), by Walt Murphy News & Results Services
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This Day in Track & Field, November 8, Edward Carter wins fourth of his five US /AAU cross country champs, by Walt Murphy News & Results Services
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