This Day in Track & Field–January  26, Mel Sheppard sets the WIR at mile (1906), Steve Prefontaine breaks AR (1974), Born This Day, Jeanette Pickens-Bolden (1960), complied and edited by Walt Murphy

This Day in Track & Field–January  26, Mel Sheppard sets the WIR at mile (1906), Steve Prefontaine breaks AR (1974), Born This Day, Jeanette Pickens-Bolden (1960), complied and edited by Walt Murphy

This Day in Track & Field–January  26   1906—Mel Sheppard set a World Indoor Record of 4:25.2 for the Mile at a meet hosted by Columbia University at Madison Square Garden, and Lawson Robertson won the 300-yards in 33.4. Both events served as U.S. Championship races. From the NY Times Archives: “The crowd was there, one […]