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New Book Corrects Record After 104 Years:
Meredith 19W11 Learned To Run At Williamson
The record has now been officially set
straight for the world to see — James
“Ted” Meredith 19W11, the track star
who in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, won two gold medals
and set two world records — learned
to run while a student at Williamson,
not at the Mercersburg Academy or the
University of Pennsylvania, the schools
that have gotten the credit for giving
him his running skills for 104 years.
Meredith not only learned to run at
Willi