To those of you who think my list is skewed, you're right. I do only have American men on the list, the respective universities did not have archive records that I could see and so that was a track and field American list. If international studs are taken into account there will be differences, just show me a list that does this! I agree the 3:42 1500 should be taken into account. This list is at best, a starting point.
According to this, as of May, 2000, the Ducks had 27 sub-4 milers in their ranks.
http://goducks.ocsn.com/sports/m-track/recaps/051400aaa.html
Except for one of the first posts, i've seen no mention of Georgetown. Lets not forget Steve Holman, the best american miler of the 90's, not to mention Kenah (world champs broze medalist), Woodward, Stahr, and Trautman. And the tradition hasn't faded much over the years, i think they recently won the Penn 4x8. I'm not claiming that they are definitively better than Nova and Co., just wanted to keep them in the mix of the discussion.
800 METERS
1:41.11 ...... Wilson Kipketer (Den) '97
1:41.73 ............... Seb Coe (GB) '81
1:41.77 ......... Joaquim Cruz (Bra) '84
1:42.28 ......... Sammy Koskei (Ken) '84
1:42.47 ... Yuriy Borzakovskiy (Rus) '01
1:42.55 ......... André Bucher (Swi) '01
1:42.58 ........ Vebjørn Rodal (Nor) '96
1:42.60 ........... Johnny Gray (US) '85
1:42.62 ...... Patrick Ndururi (Ken) '97
1:42.69 ...... Japheth Kimutai (Ken) '99
.............. Hezekiel Sepeng (SA) '99
Never ever ever doubt the 800 guru again.
Analagously, nice word....
middle distance has still not been defined.
but it includes the 1500 for sure, and with that let me throw in a man years ahead of his time, dedicated to us freaks long before sponsors, dyestat, and brojos. back in the days of grote's message board... john scheifer. all give thanks, and a moment of silence for tnfmedia.com. i still find myself arbitrarily typing that in. for fun sometimes. becuase i forget mostly.