Ryun's 1969 win in the mile helped the Kansas Jayhawks win the NCAA indoor track championship that year.

The prominence of the distances were maintained by Roger Bannister, who ( in 1954 ) was the first to run the long-elusive four-minute mile, and Jim Ryun's exploits served to popularise interval training.

In 1975, Bayi broke Ryun's eight-year-old mile record by clocking 3: 51. 0 in Kingston, Jamaica on 17 May.

In 1975 he ran a personal best 3: 52. 2 in the mile, finishing second to Filbert Bayi ( who broke Ryun's world record in that race by 0. 1 second with a 3: 51. 0 ), and set a United States record of 8: 17. 12 in the 2 mile.

Tim Danielson ( 1966 ) and Marty Liquori ( 1967 ) also came in under four minutes, but Ryun's high school record stood until Alan Webb ran 3: 53. 43 in 2001.

The crowd at the twenty-first annual K. of C. Games, final indoor meet of the season, got a thrill a few minutes earlier when a slender, bespectacled woman broke the one-week-old world record in the half-mile run.

In the final month of the 1927 season, he hit seventeen home runs, a closing spurt never matched.

-- For its final change of bill in its London season, the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet chose tonight to give one of those choreographic miscellanies known as a `` gala program '' at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

The Falcons defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 – 10 in the final game of the season to improve their record to 9 – 7.

Ajax won the ' 87 Cup Winners Cup and reached the final again the following season.

The season saw an unbeaten run in the national league and the final season for Frank Rijkaard, while striker Patrick Kluivert came off the bench to score a late winner to beat AC Milan in the final of the Champions League.

The following season, Ajax lost to Juventus on penalties in the European Cup final.

* 1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.

The series enjoyed excellent ratings throughout its run, although it had fallen out of the top 20 most watched shows during its final season.

* In both versions of the movie Bad News Bears, coach Buttermaker makes use of several unorthodox tactics during the season final.

He played three seasons with the Blades, and in his final year with the club he led the league in assists and points in both the regular season and playoffs.

The 1982 campaign saw Baltimore eliminated on the final weekend of the season by the Milwaukee Brewers.

They finished the season losing 11 of their final 12 games and 28 of their final 34.

Graham Hill took his final Formula One win in the unique " lobster claw ". Tauranac signed double world champion Graham Hill and young Australian Tim Schenken to drive for the 1971 season.

In 1996, the ten-year-old Brisbane Bears had enjoyed their best season to date, losing a preliminary final to the eventual premiers, North Melbourne.

The White Stockings won the 1900 American League pennant led by player-manager Dick Padden, the final WL / AL championship season as a minor league .< ref >

Entering the final game of the 1958 season, Cleveland needed to either win or tie against the New York Giants to clinch the Eastern Conference title and the right to host the championship game.

Due to the impending merger of the American Football League and the National Football League, which was due to take full effect in the season, Brown agreed to join the AFL as its tenth and final franchise.

Feller, who had pitched a no-hitter to open the season and won 27 games, lost the final game of the season to unknown pitcher Floyd Giebell of the Detroit Tigers.

The magnetic amplifiers required powerful pulses of heavy current produced by a transmitter-type vacuum-tube, of a type still used in amateur radio final amplifiers.

The Nimitzs CAG ( Commander, Air Group ), Commander Owens ( James Farentino ), an amateur historian, recognizes one survivor as Samuel Chapman ( Charles Durning ), a prominent United States senator who could have been Franklin Roosevelt's running mate during his final re-election bid and his eventual successor.

Giving up hours of his own time, Steve has played a major part in the production and final mixing of two songs by Leighton Buzzard amateur rap duo Docta Dax & Murfmann, with son Felix acting as DJ / Producer under the pseudonym of Inside Legg.

Laver became Wimbledon's first open era champion in 1968, beating the best amateur, American Arthur Ashe, in a semifinal and fellow-Australian Tony Roche in the final, both in straight sets.

They cancel their final western trips and suffer expulsion, the last formerly amateur clubs in the majors.

* FA Cup final – Old Carthusians 3 – 0 Old Etonians at The Oval in the last final to be played between two southern amateur sides.

Chuvalo became Canadian amateur heavyweight champion in May 1955, defeating Winnipeg's Peter Piper with a first-round KO in a tournament final in Regina, Saskatchewan.

In his Masters victory, Burke came from eight strokes behind in the final round, with a 71 in heavy winds, to overtake amateur leader Ken Venturi, who shot 80.

The motion was defeated and Darwen travelled down to the Oval to play the great amateur side Old Etonians in the quarter – final.

One of his last wins as an amateur was against another future professional Tony Meo in the final of the Pontin's Spring Open of 1978.

The sculpture continues to provide a diversion for cryptanalysts, both amateur and professional, who are attempting to decrypt the final section.

* The final day of two top amateur events, the St Andrews Links Trophy and the St Rule Trophy.

Other notable tournaments that year were the Queen's Club tournament ( the Graebner-Okker final cancelled due to rain which also delayed the first matches in Wimbledon ) and the greatest pro tournaments where all the NTL and WCT pros could compete ( but without amateur or registered players ) as the U. S. Pro ( outside Boston, on grass ), the French Pro ( coming back to Roland Garros after the 5-edition interlude at Coubertin ), the Jack Kramer Tournament of Champions at Wembley in November and perhaps the Madison Square Garden Pro in December with the four best pros of each organisation.

the final of the 1962 Ramón de Carranza Trophy ( at the suggestion of journalist Rafael Ballester ), and a silver medal playoff match between amateur teams representing Venezuela and Bolivia in the 1965 Bolivarian Games.

In his final years, Meany took up amateur photography and painting as hobbies.

He became world amateur champion for a second time in 1966, defeating future world professional champion John Spencer in the final.

However, despite the advantages, only one amateur club has actually reached the final since professionalism was introduced in French football in 1932: Calais RUFC in 2000.

One of the more recent successes of an amateur club occurred during the 1999 – 2000 competition when Championnat de France amateur club Calais RUFC reached the final.

Calais ' road to the final was a prime example of the major advantages amateur clubs had with the club playing all of its matches at home beginning with the Round of 64 match.

It would be Collins ’ final entry in the amateur radio market until it was discontinued in the mid-1980s.

From the 1920s onwards, though now drawing very sizeable crowds for amateur football, the club had little success on the pitch until the 1950s, but beat RAF, Uxbridge in their 3rd successive Middlesex Sports Red Cross Cup final win, in the first-ever amateur match at Wembley stadium.