Robbins, and Wyndham Halswelle of the United Kingdom. The 400m final featured Taylor, fellow Americans J. (Image: University Archives and Records Center) Penn’s track & field team in 1904-1905, group photograph. Taylor was the underdog in the quarter-mile run and was expected to lose to Rogers of Cornell, but won the race easily with a time of 48.8 seconds, which broke his own interscholastic world record. Guided by famed trainer and coach Mike Murphy, he helped the Red & Blue return to track & field glory, including a first-place finish for the Quakers at the 32nd annual IC4A Championships on June 1, 1907, at Harvard Stadium. A few strides more gave him the pole, and then he romped home, as they say of horse races.” With every bound he moved up one position until, before the turn was made, he was in the lead.
He trailed along easily with the field, running about sixth until the turn was reached then he began to let himself out. “If he had been pushed at the finish, it is a cinch that he would have clipped another fifth of a second off the figures. “It is hard to say how fast Taylor could have run the quarter mile Saturday,” the paper reported in its May 30, 1904, edition. The Philadelphia Inquirer, who dubbed Taylor the “colored wonder,” called it a “ splendid victory, gloriously achieved.”
His time of 49.2 seconds vanquished the previous record, held by Maxie Long of Columbia, by a fifth of a second. On May 28, 1904, at the 29th annual Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) Championships at Franklin Field, he set a new interscholastic world record in the quarter-mile.
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