Just checked with the coach at Phillips Academy. There is no info available
as to Lemmon's performances while a member of the T&F, CC squads.
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From: John Babington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: t-and-f: Re: Requiescat In Pace
> Here's a possible explanation for Jack Lemmon's two-mile "New England
> record". He could have won the two mile run at the New England prep
> school championships (private schools only) in meet record time. This
> would have been considered by many to be a New England record. The
> private schools may have been running two miles long before the public
> high schools ran anything longer than a mile. (These days, the privates
> run 1500/3000, while the public schools run mile/2 mile in Mass. and
> 1600/3200 elsewhere.) It's also possible that he set his "record"
> indoors. At least one of Andover and Exeter, and maybe both, had the same
> kind of indoor track that Harvard had in those days: a dirt floor in a
> square building, four straightaways, rounded turns, ten or more laps to
> the mile.
>
> John Babington
>
