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"Our trackmen came here to beat their opponents," said one U.S. official.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1893, four Princeton and four Pennsylvania trackmen found a way to make their competition more exciting�by running against each other successively by twos in a mile race instead of simultaneously at 440 yards.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Moscow last summer, Russian trackmen, who had been making quantum jumps in the sport, lost to the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

So happy was one of the world's greatest trackmen to be free of politics that he lined up his family, down to youngest daughter Denise, 14 months, for a joyous group portrait on the blocks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reed Young had gone with an engine to wire reënforcements, and McCloud, active among the trackmen until the conflagration spent itself, had retired to the shade of the hill.

From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)