I soon found that he was Mr. C. N. Jackson, a don of Hertford College, who should always be remembered as the first hurdler to finish in even time.
"An American at Oxford"
John Corbin
Nor was he concerned in the tidings brought forward by the youth in the golf cap, who raced the slippery decks and vaulted the prostrate forms as sure-footedly as a hurdler on a cinder track.
"The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys"
Richard Harding Davis
No trained hurdler that ever ran across country in the county of Devonshire could have held the pace that Vance kept up.
"Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812"
James Barnes