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	Sweep! Curling's Magazine
		Cunningham mused at the notion that "We've got Curlers!" could be a follow-up theme for Capital One's current aggressive "You've got Bankers" advertising campaign.
		As Halloween fast approached, Glenn Howard showed that his squad was not to be bewitched by any of the predominantly western-based opponents at the MNP Prairie Classic in Portage la Prairie.
		Besides Glenn Howard, the man at the centre of most of the attention at the 2007 Tim Hortons Brier in Hamilton was the head ice guy, Dave Merklinger (shown here during the final after that tournament's round-robin 'picks' were under control).
	sweepmag.com (15108 words)

	Glenn Cunningham (runner) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cunningham set a world record for the mile and indoor world records for the 1500 meters and the mile.
		In the 1,500-meter final at the 1936 Games in Berlin, Cunningham ran faster than the world record but was beaten by New Zealand's Jack Lovelock and received the silver medal.
		Born in Elkhart, Kansas, Cunningham was nick-named the "Kansas Flyer", the "Elkhart Express" and the "Iron Horse of Kansas".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glenn_Cunningham_(runner) (259 words)

	Cunningham Calls it a Career (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cunningham, whom the press would later dub the "Iron Horse of Kansas" and the "Elkhart Express," arrived on Mt. Oread in 1930 as the greatest scholastic miler in history.
		The sports editor for the Kansas City Star, for instance, asserted, "Glenn Cunningham has slipped beyond the zenith of his running career." Although the editor claimed that he would "like to see Cunningham win [that year's] Olympic 1,500-meter run," he doubted that it was possible.
		The 30-year old Cunningham finished last in the race, despite the urging of a partisan crowd, as the Rideout twins took first and second and established a new record for the Relays.
	www.kuconnection.org /april2002/people_Glenn.asp (2770 words)

	Glenn Cunningham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Glenn Cunningham (September 16, 1943 - May 25, 2004) was the first African-American mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, the state's second-largest city.
		After Cunningham died, Jerramiah Healy became the mayor of Jersey City.
		Before his election as mayor, Cunningham, a former Marine and member of the Jersey City Police Department for 25 years, had been tapped by President Bill Clinton to serve as head of New Jersey's United States Marshals Office.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Glenn_Cunningham (90 words)

	Glenn Cunningham laid to rest in Jersey City; Dems to meet next Wednesday to pick new Senator (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cunningham's carriage, which was ridden by one of his deputy mayors, Eugene Drayton, was trailed by an entourage of limousines carrying the mayor's family and close friends as well as a parade of elected officials and former elected officials from Jersey City and the surrounding area.
		Cunningham and Menendez had been locked in a nasty feud for two years, the result of a power struggle in the world of Hudson County Democratic politics.
		Cunningham's loyalists in the city, many of whom would lose their clout -- if not jobs -- if the HCDO's candidate were to take over, are very much hoping Bolden-Cunningham runs, since she is probably the only truly electable candidate the Cunningham camp has.
	www.politicsnj.com /kornacki060104_Cunningham.htm (1213 words)

	Adam Green brings back memories
		At the 2004 IHSAA State Finals, runners were collapsing well ahead of the finish line, some literally crawling to the end with their fingernails filled with dirt and their grimacing faces covered with mud from the soggy course.
		Cunningham, from remote Elkhart in the extreme southwest corner of the state, edged San Romani in the 1,500-meter run for a victory in the 1936 Olympic trials.
		Known as the Elkhart Express, Cunningham arrived at the University of Kansas in 1930 as the greatest scholastic miler in history.
	www.ftonews.com /adam-green.html (1167 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Glenn Cunningham
		When he was six, Glenn and his older brother Floyd had the chore of starting a fire in the schoolhouse stove every cold morning.
		Cunningham became a miler in high school and set an interscholastic record of 4:24.7 in his last race.
		Cunningham, who had a master's degree from the University of Iowa and a doctorate from New York University, retired from competition in 1940 and for four years was director of physical education at Cornell College in Iowa.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/cunnhamg.shtml (430 words)

	Lynn Seely @ Suite101.com - Profile
		When Glenn was a young boy he was badly burned while attempting to save the life of his older brother.
		Glenn was not successful and was not expected to survive.
		A doctor explained to Glenn's mother that amputation of both legs was probably the only way to save the life of her son.
	www.suite101.com /profile.cfm/Lynn (1254 words)

	CNN/SI - Athletics - Kansas runners dominated eras in mile run - Saturday December 11, 1999 02:16 PM (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cunningham, born in 1909 in Elkhart in southwest Kansas, was severely burned at age 13 when a stove exploded in his school, killing his older brother, Floyd.
		Cunningham eventually regained the use of his legs, and as a senior went on to set the U.S. high school mile record at 4:31.4, broke that with a 4:28.4 in the state meet, and then ran 4:24.7 at a national high school meet in Chicago.
		Cunningham was the greatest of the Kansas runners, Hayes believes.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1999/12/11/kansas_greats_ap (1162 words)

	TIME.com: Fastest Mile -- Mar. 14, 1938 -- Page 1
		When Runner Glenn Cunningham first made sport headlines in 1931, the world's record for a mile on foot was 4 min., 9.2 sec.
		Paced by six Dartmouth runners, with handicaps ranging from five to 600 yards, Cunningham ran his race almost exactly as he planned: the quarter mile in 58.5 sec., the half mile in 2:02.5, the three-quarter mile in 3:04.2 and—pumping his piston-like legs as fast as he could—the mile in 4:04.4.
		Not only did his amazing performance establish Glenn Cunningham as the fastest miler in the world, but it demonstrated conclusively that he is also the most consistent.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,759292,00.html (457 words)

	The Inside Edge \| PoliticsNJ.com, New Jersey's Online Political Network (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The early front runner for the Senate seat is former Assembly Speaker JOSEPH DORIA, the Mayor of Bayonne who served in the Assembly from 1980 to 2002.
		Glenn Cunningham's first bid for Mayor was in 1989, when he forced Gerald McCann into a runoff.
		Glenn Cunningham is the14th State Senator to die in office since the adoption of the current State Constitution in 1947.
	politicsnj.com /May26_2004_rolling.htm (1428 words)

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		Cunningham, while beaten in the major races of his life, the ones he wanted most of all to win, was in many respects the greatest of' all American milers.
		By high school time he had become a fine runner, and later, at Princeton, he was for a time an unbeatable miler.
		At the age of 7, Cunningham was terribly burned in a flash fire that took the life of his 13-year-old brother.
	www.trackandfieldnews.com /general/back_track/28-29.html (1454 words)

	July 1998 Runner's Web Trivia
		Glenn Cunningham, Billy Mills, Wes Santee and Jim Ryun were all world record holders in distance running.
		What New Zealand male runner won the Olympic 1500M bronze in 1972,finished fourth in the 1976 5000m and was 10th in the 1984 marathon?
		Between 1967 and 1996 one US runner held the women's world record in the mile 4 times.
	www.runnersweb.com /running/july98.html (219 words)

	10k Truth - RunnerSpeak A Dictionary of Running Jargon and Other Sports Terms
		runner of road races with tendency to suffer and die somewhere along the route, usually as the result of being overtaken by a carcassore (see below).
		Cunningham, Glenn - Top American distance runner in the 1930's despite missing all the toes on his left foot where injured by fire as a child.
		Viren, Lasse - 5000 and 10,000 meter runner from Finland.
	www.10ktruth.com /q_and_a/vocab.htm (2966 words)

	Glenn Cunningham Day, Medicine Lodge, Barber County, Kansas
		In 1936 Cunningham was selected as the most popular member of the Olympics team from the United States by his fellow athletes.
		Glenn Cunningham"When he was only eight years old, Glenn Cunningham's physicians told him that he would never walk again after suffering from severe leg burns from a gasoline explosion..."
		Glenn V. Cunningham "Years before becoming the world's greatest miler and two-time U.S. Olympian, Glenn Cunningham nearly died in a schoolhouse fire that claimed his brother's life and left his legs so badly burned, his doctor wanted to amputate them..."
	www.rootsweb.com /~ksbarber/cunningham_glenn.html (805 words)

	Joe Henderson's Running Commentary - RRCA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Glenn Cunningham was a hero of my dad's generation.
		Glenn began to run as therapy, and eventually developed into one of the world's best milers.
		Cunningham was much younger then, at 51, than I am now.
	www.joehenderson.com /archive/home.php?article=2052 (569 words)

	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Speedsters : Jack Lovelock : www.nzedge.com
		Glenn Cunningham and Jack Lovelock, two of the best milers from the 1930s and both world record holders.
		Up to this point the race had consisted of the usual jostling for position, powerful surges as runners strove to maintain the heat, cranking tiring muscles, lungs and heart towards their limits, mentally pressing competitors to crack first, conscious of maintaing reserves for a final burst.
		This amazing win is all the more remarkable in the view of Glenn Cunningham, who finished third, being the unofficial holder of the World's Mile Record, made at Madison Square Gardens, 1934, with a time of 4 mins.
	www.nzedge.com /heroes/lovelock.html (2288 words)

	SWFTR OFFICERS AND DIGNITARIES
		Marathon runner Roger Unruh is the current President of SWFTR and lives in Garden City, KS.
		The Cunningham/Baker Scholarships are also named for Elkhart native son and former University of Kansas Jayhawk athlete Glenn Cunningham, a fellow Olympian as well as a former world record holder in the mile run.
		Both Cunningham and Baker are members of the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame which recently relocated from Abilene, KS to Wichita, KS.
	users.pld.com /verukety/SWFTRofficers.html (286 words)

	TIME.com: Who Won -- Mar. 29, 1937 -- Page 1
		¶Runner Glenn Cunningham: the Columbian Mile, feature race of the Knights of Columbus Track Meet, for the fifth consecutive year; in Manhattan.
		In 1934, Cunningham won it in the amazingly fast time of 4:08.4, a world's record (indoors).
		Cunningham, climaxing a season in which he has won five of the six major miles, ran the first half of the race two seconds faster than he did in 1934, but failed by three-tenths of a second to break his record.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,757511,00.html (431 words)

	December 2006 Runner's Web Trivia
		This British runner, who set many records at various and middel long distance races between 1900 and 1920, was one of the very first to record his training methods and advice in book form.
		Name the pair of Swedes who took turns setting the world record for the mile six times in about three years between the summers of 1942 and 1945.
		Runner's World magazine was in full upswing by 1970.
	www.runnersweb.com /running/December2006.html (201 words)

	Awards
		Jean Schooler, a repeat winner, received the 2004 Glenn Cunningham Track Award for outstanding performance in track events in national and state games.
		Glenn Cunningham was the greatest miler of his day.
		Glenn Cunningham Memorial Awards are presented each year for the track performances the preceding year.
	edmerck.tripod.com /id2.html (658 words)

	Glenn Cunningham (runner)
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		Glenn Cunningham (August 4, 1909 - March 10, 1988) was an American distance runner and athlete considered by many the greatest American miler of all time.
		Cunningham was so badly burned in a fire when he was eight that doctors recommended amputating his legs, but his mother wouldn't allow it.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Glenn_Cunningham_(runner) (301 words)

	BBC - Somerset - Sport - Somerset Rebels announce 2006 signing
		The Somerset Rebels have announced that Glenn Cunningham will be returning to the Oak Tree Arena in 2006, in what will be his fifth successive season with the club.
		Glenn enjoyed a good season in the Premier League in 2005.
		On hearing the news about his signing, Glenn said: "Somerset were the only club I wanted to ride for in 2006.
	www.bbc.co.uk /somerset/content/articles/2005/12/13/somerset_rebels_glenn_cunningham_signing_feature.shtml (276 words)

	UNO Alumni Association
		The entire project was set into motion by Omaha Mayor Glenn Cunningham, who is an OU alumnus.
		Cunningham sent a written invitation to Mayor Fred Kerst of Crete for OU's Homecoming football game with Doane College.
		Mayor Cunningham "ran" the first lap, handed the wampum bag to the first student runner, and the two-day trip was under way at about 9:30 a.m.
	www.unoalumni.org /about_us/flashback/archive/3/index.asp (287 words)

	Glenn Beck - Media Matters
		Philadelphia-based radio and television host Glenn Beck's career began after he won a radio station contest at 13.
		After working for several years as a disc jockey, Beck got his own daily talk radio show, The Glenn Beck Program, in 2001 and is currently syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks to nearly 250 stations nationwide as well as XM Satellite Radio.
		Glenn Beck guest: "Believe it or not, tax cuts bring in revenue" -- several Bush economists don't believe it
	mediamatters.org /issues_topics/people/glennbeck (601 words)

	Kansas Track and Cross Country Legend Still Setting the Pace ::
		We are able to interlace the three elevations into the course so that runners have to traverse all sorts of different obstacles.
		"Glenn Cunningham was tough and a fantastic competitor who could enthrall people with his speaking abilities," Timmons recounted.
		One of his favorite stories centers around John Lawson, the last KU runner to win the national championship (1965), and the only Kansas runner to win the conference championship on West Campus.
	kuathletics.cstv.com /sports/c-xc/spec-rel/102306aaa.html (1334 words)

	Class Notes - October 7, 1998
		A British runner, Wooderson held the world record for the mile and was the odds-on favorite in the field of five world-class milers.
		In England in 1937, Wooderson had shaved Cunningham's mark by four-tenths of a second and was the record holder at 4:06.4 in 1939 when Bushnell scored a coup by attracting Wooderson to compete against Cunningham and others in the Princeton meet.
		Though Fenske's wininng time was a disappointment (he was followed by Cunningham, Romani, Rideout, and Wooderson) the claim of foul produced a loud and extended aftermath.
	www.princeton.edu /~paw/archive_old/PAW98-99/02-1007/1007cns.html (4098 words)

	Ultimate milestone - The Boston Globe
		Landy, who had made the Australian team in Helsinki as a second-tier runner who had to pay his own way, had gone back to his homeland inspired by the feats, and training methods, of the man who had won the 5,000, 10,000, and (in his first such race ever), the marathon.
		Santee was the son of a physically and verbally abusive ranch hand who had himself dropped out of school in the second grade and believed in the value of neither education nor athletics.
		An even bigger obstacle to success for the frustrated runner was the entity known as the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), the bullying and sanctimonious governing body of American track and field.
	www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/running/articles/2004/05/06/ultimate_milestone?mode=PF (1349 words)

	He made his own destiny - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At once Glenn, who was only seven years old, ran back into the fire to save his brother.
		Glenn's ambition had always been to be a fast-runner, but now that seemed impossible.
		Glenn was given crutches, but he could not use them.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/sep152006/sesame1257222006914.asp (792 words)

	Clarence Dillon Public Library Calendar
		Paul J. Kiell's "American Miler: The Life and Times of Glenn Cunningham" (Breakaway Books, March 15, 2006) will be discussed by the author on Wednesday, April 19th at 7 p.m.
		Glenn Cunningham nearly died in a schoolhouse fire that claimed his brother's life and left the seven-year-old's legs so badly burned his doctor wanted to amputate them.
		Paul J. Kiell is a psychiatrist, a former editor of the "American Athletic Association Quarterly," a runner and a swimmer.
	www.youseemore.com /clarencedillon/calendar.asp?cal=45&detail=414&date=4/19/2006 (207 words)

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