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...When he graduates, we're going to realize how little shotputters really look," track coach Bill McCurdy said. When asked for further comment about this year's track captain, senior Dick Benka, McCurdy exclaimed, "He's a damned monster...
...Benka has used his bulk to put the 16 1b. shot farther than any previous Harvard man as well as farther than any other collegian in the East this year. This weekend, he will try to add the NCAA championship to the IC4A crown he successfully defended last Saturday...
...Benka's development as a shotputter has been spectacular. Harvard's track coaches hadn't heard much about him before he showed up as a freshman at an organizational meeting for track. When he walked over to field events coach Ed Stowell, Stowell said. "Who the hell...
...Despite Benka's 6'77", 235-pound frame Stowell did not think he could be a top-ranked shotputter--until his sophomore year, when Dick uncorked a 54' heave in the indoor Heptagonal meet. The put went nearly four feet farther than his best freshman effort, but was far short of the 61' 5 3/4" throw which gave him his second straight Heptagonal indoor title this year...
...Crimson tallied 18 points in the first three events to take a short-lived lead. Musclemen Dick Benka and Ed Nosal exploded for victories in the shot put and 35-pound weight respectively. Benka, hobbling for the past week from an ankle injury, uncorked a heave of 59'1" to outdistance George Allen of St. John's by more than a foot for his second consecutive IC4A championship...