Wet roads

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(Image: Ohio State track event vs. Indiana, 1947) Ohio State's men's track team stunned Indiana and, in the words of the Alumni Monthly, impressed its own swimming coach in a May 17, 1947, meet at the stadium. Flash flooding had left inches of stagnant water on the track, forcing runners to continue ankle-deep, but hardly stopping OSU's Ed Porter and Harry Cogswell from placing first and second in the 440. Runners regularly faced similar conditions, including at a 1993 meet, until the completion of the Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in 2001 on higher ground west of the Olentangy.