CAN HE DO IT ?

... show us, for it he can beat Nankeville, Wilson, Morris. Toomey (U.S.A.), and Garay (Hungary), no one else save, perhaps. Roger Bannister could live with him. This will indeed be the race of the year. ...

Published: Friday 15 July 1949
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 87 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Bannister’s Record Mile

... Bannister’s Record Mile Another record mile by Roger Bannister (Oxford) and two other records featured in the 15th International Univer- Isity match at Cambridge (Mass.) yesterday when the combined Oxford and Cambridge team beat Harvard and Yale by eight ...

Published: Tuesday 21 June 1949
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Bannister's Fast Time

... Bannister's Fast Time Oxford beat Cambridge by SS points to 4S in the Inter-University cross-country race over 7* miles. at Roehampton, yesterday. Roger Bannister, the Oxford miler, who was first home, recorded simin. 545ec.. fastest time since 1922. ...

Published: Sunday 11 December 1949
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 98 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MAY GAIN FOURTH WIN

... MAY GAIN FOURTH WIN If Roger Bannister represents Oxford in the mile against Cambridge in the university sports he may equal a record by winning the event for the fourth successive year Since 1864, when the series began, only two men have accomplished ...

Published: Tuesday 20 December 1949
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

OLD SULIAN RUNNER

... School, Roger Bannister (Oxford) put up the second fastest mile ever run on the Fenner track when he helped the combined Oxford and Cambridge team beat the Amateur Athletic Association 82 points to 47 at Cambridge on Tuesday night. Bannister's time was ...

OTHER SPORT IN BRIEF

... announced that they have received an application for affiliation from the British League of Racing Cyclists. ATHLETICS. ROGER BANNISTER (Oxford) made the best time since 1922 when first home in 41m. 545. in the Inter-Varsity crosscountry race over 74 miles ...

Published: Sunday 11 December 1949
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 105 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

' Oxford miler's fast time in America THE Oxford and Cambridge athletic team was defeated by• the combined ..

... Universities at Princetown. New Jersey. on Saturday by nine events to four. , but an Englishman won the high honours. • Roger Bannister (Oxford) captain of the British team, won the mile by 25Yd. in 4mln. 11.1 sec. —the second fastest mile run In the United ...

Published: Monday 13 June 1949
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 167 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The Iford party in progress

... races—Flat race (under five years); 1, Myrtle Llewellin; 2. Margaret Cooper; 3, Roger Bannister. Paper strip race (under five years): 1, Myrtle Llewellin and Roger Bannister; 2, Janet Tucker and John Bryans; 3, Margaret Cooper and Carole Pickering. Three-legged ...

Published: Friday 21 September 1945
Newspaper: Sussex Express
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 605 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

4,............... SPORTING NOTEBOOK t,_

... Tuesday. Neither team has bees defeated this year. FINCHLEY HARRIERS mu their attractive Bulletiq- this week. I see that Roger Bannister, et the Harriers, hae been elect.* presideLt of the Oxford. Ufa. verinty Athletic Club. . . Another Harrier 18 also rub ...

Published: Thursday 27 January 1949
Newspaper: Hampstead News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Aga Khan’s Hope Runs At Ascot

... races. .& % » Bannister Withdraws Roger Bannister, the Oxford miler, has withdrawn from the England team to compete in the Empire Games in New Zealand in February because ‘he has to sit for important ‘university examinations. Bannister is a medical student ...

Published: Monday 03 October 1949
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

U.S. TOUR FOR VARSITY ATHLETES

... certain to start favourites, tor they- possess an exceptionally strong string of track men, notably John Wilkinson and Roger Bannister, for whom a great future is predicted as miler. Both universities are combining to send a. team to America for a resumption ...

Published: Friday 28 January 1949
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

TOM WHITE

... White for Empire Games THOM WHITE, of Scunthorpe, Lincoln Wellington A.C. half-niiler, will invited to take the plain of Roger Bannister in the England team to compete in the Empire Games in New Zealand in February. White, informed of this an Echo reporter ...

Published: Monday 03 October 1949
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 135 | Page: 1 | Tags: none