Sport: Milers' Teacher

New York University, which claims to be the world's largest,* is not a colossus in sport. But year in & out N.Y.U. has consistently produced great track athletes. Most extraordinary has been its succession of superb milers: Frank Nordeil, Leslie MacMitchell and this season's freshman sensation, Frank Dixon. The greatest miler of them all, Glenn Cunningham, did his best running when he was a Ph.D. student at N.Y.U.

Last week the Track Writers Association, which annually picks the nation's outstanding indoor track performer, decided it was high time to bestow an award...

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