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Alvin Kraenzlein: Rivalry Among Teammates
The American contingent at the 1900 Paris Olympic Games was not particularly well organized. Unlike athletes from most other countries, the Americans did not compete wearing a national uniform. Instead, they wore the colours of the military branches or colleges for which they competed at home—and they brought their stateside rivalries with them. One especially heated rivalry existed between the track-and-field athletes of Syracuse University and the University of Pennsylvania, who regularly battled each other for national titles. Syracuse’s leading light was a long jumper named Meyer Prinstein, who held the world record (24 feet 71/4 inches [7.51 metres]) and ...(100 of 412 words)