Handbook of athletic games for players, instructors, and spectators, comprising fifteen major ball games, track and field athletics and rowing races (1916)
Bancroft, Jessie Hubbell, 1867-, Pulvermacher, William Dean · New York, Macmillan · leaf 538
r. Team. In track and field athletics, all competitors who aretrying to win points for the same organization. Touch-off. Act of a relay runner when meeting a team-mate,who will run in his place; they must touch hands withina given zone. Track. Cinder or dirt path, on which runners compete.… … RUNNING RACES KINDS AND DISTANCES — Various runningraces are included in athletic games. Those especiallydesignated by the leading organizations, are: SHORT-DISTANCE RACES (sprints, dashes — 50 to300 yards). MIDDLE-DISTANCE RACES (300 yards to I mile). LONG-DISTANCE RACES (10 to 26…
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