Anyone with plain horse sense would know that it wouldn't do for two big-name races like the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness to be run the same afternoon. But for 38 years the season's two biggest college track meets—Iowa's Drake Relays and Philadelphia's Penn Relays—have been run the same days.
Everybody seemed happy about the arrangement but the track coaches, who sometimes want to be in both places at the same time, and sometimes do what the Illinois coach did last week. He sent 14 of his athletes to Philadelphia, 19 to Des Moines....
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