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Mile clock in doubt as Americans fear Olympic distance
Experts debate why the United States trails in distance running with Wes Santee’s near four minute mile history and a string of foreign records. Names like Bannister Landy De laany Abbottson and Santee frame a long tradition, while Kansas University athletes such as Lynn McCarthy and Lynn Mather figure in football and prep star recruiting.
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U.S. Alliance
Kansas
Wes Santee
Texas
Santee
AAU
England
Roger Bannister
Chris Chatenay
Brian Hewson
Derek Abbotson
Australia
John Landy
Jim Bailey
Hungary
Laszlo Tabori
Ireland
Ron Delany
Denmark
Gunnar Nielsen
FBI
Horace Ashenfelter
Vladimir Kasantsev
Russia
Aschenfelfer
Zamperini
San Romani
MacMitchell
Dodds
Bill Easton
Ashland
Emil Zatopek
Czechoslovakia
Gaston Reiff
Belgium
U.S
America
Sandy
Dr. Bannister
Bannister
Han
K. CU
Bill Bantn
Mi. Oread
Easton
Lynn McCarthy
K. U. Pigakin
Mather and Co
Weldom
Oklahoma
Bud Wilkinson
Kansas City
K. U.-Washington
Seattle
Wilt Chamberlain