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FARRELL SHOWS THAT TRACK MEN ARE MADE NOT BORN

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In checking over the list of University track entries for the Harvard-Yale track meet in the Stadium on Saturday, a series of interesting statistics were compiled by Coach Farrell to support Coach Bingham's old theory that track men are made and not born at Harvard.

Of the 40 first athletes on the squad, the men who made the trip to Princeton last week, 26, had never competed in track before they came to college, and 20 of these had never worn a track shoe in their lives before they set foot on the Stadium track. And of the 14 experienced men, who had competed in preparatory school, five never made their school team. This has left him but a nucleus of nine so-called preparatory school stars around which he has had to build his entire track team.

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