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Originally Posted by 71buc
Evolution in sport does happen rapidly. Jesse Owens in1936 ran a 9.4 100yd Dash (World Record). A scant thirty nine years later Houston McTear sets the HIGH SCHOOL 100yd dash record set at 9.3.
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Yes when Olympic Bronze Medalist Andre De Grasse ran in the same conditions and same equiptment as Jesse Owens his time was 11 seconds
https://www.flotrack.org/articles/50...e-owens-spikes
I think Cobb, Ruth, Wagner etc. would do fine in today's game.