Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hank Abbot finished second behind Heptagonal champion Carl Shine of Penn, but he broke the University record with a 52 ft., 3 in. heave. Benjamin was a double winner, taking the mile in 4:14.8 and the two-mile in 9:13.0, and Joel Landau won both hurdle races. Sophomore Frank Yoemans emerged as a first-rate dash man, beating Penn's Dave Coffin and Cornell's George Ekstrom with...
...scene was set for the Yale meet. In the first running event, the mile, Eli coach Bob Giegengack tried a daring gamble, taking ace 880 man Ed Slowik out of his normal event and pitting him against Benjamin and Jed Fitzgerald...
...When Benjamin and Fitzgerald rushed past Yale's Jim Wade with only 150 yards to go, it seemed as though Giegengack's strategy had failed. But Slowik came from far back and won by two yards...
...behind Bulldog Tom Carroll. Steve Snyder of Yale edged out Yeomans, who ran a 9.8 100. Joel Landau lost the first low hurdle race of his career to Jim Carney of Yale, and he was shuut out in the 220. Only Landau's 14.9 in the high hurdles and Benjamin's 9:12.0 in the two-mile were good enough for firsts in the running events...
Dartmouth fell the next day, 81 2/3 to 58 1/3, in the Stadium, as coach Bill McCurdy juggled his lineup to prevent a slaughter. Benjamin ran a 4:12.1 mile for the day's best performance. Finally the Crimson took third in the Heptagonals, with Benjamin scoring ten of the team's 40 points and deKiewiet continuing undefeated in the high jump...