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The Vanderbilt Track Team Comes to Cowan

As told by Alan Chesney
Cowan, Tennessee

Story Narrative:

"Hello my name Alan Chesney. I live in Chattanooga and my father graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1928, and competed on the tract team of what was then the southern conference. He used to love to tell how they would ride the train down here to Cowan and get on the go train to go up the mountain up to Swanee and they would compete against the University of South and this was back in 1928, more than 60 years ago when not too many people had a car, and if they did, they probably didn't drive it up the mountain. So he use to love to tell that story of coming here to Cowan, which was a small town, but it was kind of a crossroad of the world. Thank you."

Asset ID: 7393
Tags: #Sports #HometownTeams

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