Words by Eddie STATS Houghton and DJ Gravy

There was a good deal of excitement this year surrounding the annual Penn Relay track and field event. Back in 1929, 50,000 people attended Franklin Field to witness Finnish nine-time Olympic gold medalist Paavo Nurmi compete, and 81 years later, that attendance record was broken, reaching nearly 55,000, and that’s not the only record that was broken!