Tag Archives: Baxter Mile
Les MacMitchell
Les MacMitchell (Track. Born, New York, Sept. 26, 1920; died, San Jose, CA, Mar. 21, 2006.) Unusual for his era, Thomas Leslie MacMitchell was competitive with the world’s elite mile runners while still an undergraduate at N.Y.U. MacMitchell was the 1941 N.C.A.A. mile champion outdoors, but that winter he had already won the Baxter Mile […]
Gil Dodds
Gil Dodds (Track and field. Born, Norcatur, KS, June 23, 1918; died, St. Charles, IL, Feb. 3, 1977.) From the time he won the 1940 N.C.A.A. cross-country national championship running for Ashland (O.) College, Rev. Gilbert Lothar Dodds was expected to be a major star. Dodds indeed became the leading miler during and immediately after […]
Ron Delany
Ron Delany (Track and field. Born, Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland, Mar. 6, 1935.) Both as a Villanova star and as a post-graduate, Ron Delany was one of the great and dominant indoor milers in the history of indoor track at Madison Square Garden, winning all 17 of his Garden miles. Delany ran for Villanova from […]
Glenn Cunningham
Glenn Cunningham (Track and field. Born, Elkhart, KS, Aug. 4, 1909; died, Menifee, AR, Mar. 10, 1988.) While sub-4:00 miles are almost routine now, both indoors and outdoors, such was not the case in the 1930s, when Glenn Cunningham was the world’s premier miler. At that time, a sub-4:10 mile was considered unusual. No one […]
Bill Bonthron
Bill Bonthron (Track and field. Born, Detroit, MI, Nov. 1, 1912; died, Princeton, NJ, Jan. 17, 1983.) One of the star milers of the mid-1930s, William R. Bonthron was a Princeton man who often dwelled in the shadow of the immortal Glenn Cunningham. But Bonthron’s career was not without its notable successes. As a junior, […]
