This Day In Track & Field, June 15, Jack Lovelock wins Mile of Century in front of 35,000 fans at Princeton (1935), Buddy Edelen sets WR in Marathon (1963), written by Walt Murphy
Walt Murphy’s News and Results Service (wmurphy25@aol.com) This Day in Track & Field–June 15 1935–It was later referred to as the “Mile of the Century”, a matchup at the 2nd Princeton Invitation of the last two World Record holders in the Mile, New Zealand’s Jack Lovelock and American Glenn Cunningham (who had set the current […]