When cross-country was a premier college sport. We are at Princeton University. The date is November 12, 1910 and this is the start if the IC4A cross-country championship 10,000 meter run. These days at such events, the runners often outnumber the spectators, but take a close, jewlers look and you'll make out thousands of onlookers liming the course as far as the eye can see. And a few very hot babes, too. Check out those ankle-length dresses and let your mind run hog-wild, guys. I am told that women find men who wear hats to be quite sexy. Hey ladies, we got alotta mucho hats here.
The winners of the race in 33:34 (Princeton is known for spoiled rich kids and its traditionally tough, rump-whithering XC course, but of course you knew that already) was Cornell's John Paul Jones, he of the regal Naval blood lines who once held the WR for the one mile run (look it up someplace). Teammate T.S. Berna was second (33:42) and finding an Italian at an Ivy League school these days was like discovering a four-leaf clover in the Gobi desert. He musta been one smart kid- and fast too.
Go to a college cross-country meet these days and you'll see less of everything - shorter skirts, few dress hats, and (for sure) no spectators. I guess that's called progress, or something like that.