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...field events look safe for the Crimson, although Jim Coleman will need a great performance to upset Princeton's Weisinger in the high jump. Schoonover and Bog Galliers in the broad jump are probably too strong for the Tigers. And the muscular quartet of Wilson, Benka, Ajootian, and Champi insures Harvard domination of the weight events...
Weightmen Dick Benka, Charles Ajootian, and Ron Wilson led the Crimson in the field events by placing in two events apiece. Brown was able to pick up only 5 points out of a possible 36 in the weight events...
Harvard's field events men are so good that they won't get to go to Jamaica. McCurdy feels that pole vaulter Steve Schoonover and weightmen Charlie Ajootian, Dick Benka, and Ron Wilson are so close to breaking through to performances of national calibre that he doesn't dare interrupt their schedule...
Harvard weightmen Dick Benka and Charles Ajootian produced Harvard's only other points at the meet. Benka captured third place in the shot put with a mighty heave of 57' 10 1/4". Ajootian finished fourth in the 35-pound weight throw with a 59' 10 1/2" effort...
...Dick Benka became Harvard's first shot-putter ever to place in the nationals as he unleashed a 57' 10" effort to finish third. Washington State's John Van Reeman won the event with a 62' 1" toss...