Word: blodgett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carl Pescosolido's injured arm could make a difference in the meet. If Pescosolido is able to throw the javeline at full strength, he should be able to win, and Bob Kneeland also has a chance to score. Tom Blodgett's illness should not keep him from winning the pole vault against Army's Jim Young...
After McCurdy had practically given up on him as a hurdler, Tom Blodgett, already the team's best pole vaulter, demonstrated enough improvement in speed and endurance to re-establish himself as number two man behind Joel Landau. Wink Pescosolido and Pat Liles developed rapidly as low hurdlers, and distance runner Willy Thompson showed signs of life after a discouraging indoor season...
Field events may be the team's strong point. Doten and Jim Doty in the hammer, Abbot and Doty in the shot, Skip Pescosolido in the javelin, and Blodgett in the pole vault lead a strong group that should produce a few sweeps before the season is over...
...Weighed Representative Robert Blodgett's proposed ten-year ban on new government buildings in Juneau, the state capital. "I wouldn't want them to get carried away with illusions of grandeur," Blodgett explained. But Blodgett himself got carried away in speaking for his bill to set aside 5,000,000 acres of land to provide income for the University of Alaska. "Why, some day," he exclaimed, "we could have the greatest university in the country...
...Army's Ed Bagdonas, and Hank Abbot took fourth in the shot put with a good 50 ft., 2 3/4 in. heave. Although Fitzgerald faltered in the mile, Fred Howard came out of nowhere on the last lap to salvage fifth place for the varsity, and pole vaulter Tom Blodgett cleared 13 feet for a third-place...