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, and won with the fourth-best time in the world that season, 55.1 seconds. Snyder clocked the eleventh-fastest time of the season at 55.5 seconds. 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 short hurdles, 14.8 seconds in both the heats and the final.

The Penn Relays also typically include the decathlon. Of Czech descent,  Anthony Plansky achieved a world-leading score of 7,013.490 points. Harold Osborn surpassed it later at the U.S. championships.