When the landscapist was laying out the football field in Princeton's Palmer Stadium in 1914. he decided that the sides of the field should be banked, started grading by digging a deep marginal moat. Belatedly it was pointed out that the proposed embankment would be dangerous to footballers forced out of bounds. Thereupon, the moat was turned into a cinder track whose unusual depth of ballast surprised one & all by providing a remarkably springy surface. Thus an accident accounts for what many a runner considers the world's fastest track, a smooth, black...
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