Penn Relays

Georgetown University won the 4x1-lap relay at the traditional Penn Relays in Philadelphia. The team owed its victory to anchor James Burgess, who closed a seven-yard gap on Yale University and surged to victory at the finish. The winning time was 3:19.0. Yale finished just a tenth of a second behind. Georgetown's time might have been the world's best for a moment, though a 3:18.2 was recorded at the Drake Relays on the same day.

Lord Burghley Defeats Snyder

The hurdles races at Franklin Field were fast, with 40,000 spectators cheering. British visitors competed in the 440-yard hurdles. Future Olympic champion Lord Burghley defeated Larry Snyder, Jesse Owens' future coach, with a final five-yard burst and won with the fourth-best time in the world that season, 55.1. What makes the mark all the more remarkable is that His Lordship had scarcely a moment's rest after stepping off the boat from his Atlantic crossing. Snyder clocked the eleventh-fastest time of the season at 55.5. Only the U.S. championships saw a higher-caliber long hurdles race in 1925.

Burghley's form did not hold up on the second day, when the high hurdles were run. The Briton faded in the heats. Pennsylvania State University's Charles Moore – not the same man who won the long hurdles at the Helsinki Olympics – took advantage of his home-field and twice ran the eighth-fastest time of the season in the high hurdles, 14.8 in both the heats and the final.

The Penn Relays also typically include the decathlon. Of Czech descent,  Anthony Plansky of Georgetown achieved a world-leading score of 7,013.490 points in a single day. The contest wasn't settled until the final event, the 1500 meters, where Plansky wore down his teammate, Olympic silver medalist Emerson Norton. Harold Osborn surpassed Plansky's mark later at the U.S. championships.