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  2. Trans-American Footrace - Wikipedia

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    On June 2, 2015, British ultra runner Robert HP Young [8] won the 2015 Race Across USA footrace with a time of 482 hours 10 minutes. [9] The race started in Huntington Beach, California , and took the southern route on both road and trail to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland with a total distance of 3,127 miles (5,032 km).

  3. Andy Payne - Wikipedia

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    Andy Payne in 1935. Andrew "Andy" Hartley Payne (November 17, 1907 – December 3, 1977) was the winner of the International Trans-Continental Footrace in 1928. [1] [2] He ran the 3,423.5 mi (5,509.6 km) route from Los Angeles to New York City, much of it along U.S. Route 66, in 573 hours, 4 minutes, 34 seconds, (23 days) averaging 6 miles per hour (9.7 km/h) over an 84-day staged run.

  4. C. C. Pyle - Wikipedia

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    Inaugurated the first Trans-American Footrace Charles C. "Charlie" Pyle (March 26, 1882 – February 3, 1939), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] sometimes cattily referred to as "Cash and Carry Pyle," was a theater owner and sports entertainment promoter best known for his touring exhibitions featuring American football star Red Grange and French tennis player ...

  5. March 1928 - Wikipedia

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    The media bus for the Trans-American Footrace The first " Trans-American Footrace ", nicknamed the " Bunion Derby", began in Los Angeles with 199 entrants competing to run 3,523.5 miles (5,670.5 km) by foot to New York City, with a $25,000 prize for the winner.

  6. The story behind the man who ran the distance of 422 ...

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    During the 365 days of the last year, Young ran 370 races that were at least 26.2 miles long. Some of these races were "ultra-runs," which are even longer. The story behind the man who ran the ...

  7. Paul Hardrock Simpson - Wikipedia

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    [2] In 1928, Simpson competed in the Trans-American Footrace from Los Angeles to New York City. Almost two hundred people began the race, but only fifty-five reached the finish line; Simpson was among them, placing 36th. His participation was documented in a 2002 ITVS documentary, The Great American Footrace. In a second transcontinental race ...

  8. May 1928 - Wikipedia

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    Andy Payne won the first 3,400-mile (5,500 km) coast-to-coast "Trans-American Footrace", arriving in New York City 84 days after starting in Los Angeles. [44] The first-ever Palestine Cup was awarded to Hapoel Allenby Tel Aviv when they defeated Maccabi Hasmonean Jerusalem 2–0.

  9. 1928 in American television - Wikipedia

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    July 2 - The first regularly scheduled television service in the United States began on July 2, 1928. The Federal Radio Commission authorized Charles Francis Jenkins to broadcast from experimental station W3XK in Wheaton, Maryland. For at least the first eighteen months, 48-line silhouette images from motion picture film were broadcast ...