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After his victory, Connolly finally admitted the cause for last year's poor showing. Two days after he lost to Vasily Rudenkov, in the U.S.-U.S.S.R. meet in Philadelphia, he had surgery for a hernia that had plagued him all season. Married to Discus Thrower Olga Fikotova, Czechoslovakia's 1956 Olympic gold medalist, Connolly has a simple explanation for his new strength: "A happy marriage and eating well." Other record breakers...
...Tommy Carroll breezed home in the 880 with a meet record time of 1:51.3. Harvard's John deKiewiet tied the series mark of 6 ft., 3 in to win the high jump. Two more quick victories, by Yale's Mike Pyle with a 157 ft., 2 in. discus throw and Harvard's injured Tom Blodgett with a 12 ft., 6 in. pole vault, gave the Americans hope for an easy victory...
...general, the British performers were suprisingly inept in the field events. England's two discus men, Arthur Perry and G. R. Northern of Oxford were great hulks of men, but they had trouble coming within 20 feet of the winning toss by Pyle of Yale. On the other hand, the wispy English distance runners ran circles around their larger American opponents. The two-mile was originally planned as a three-mile test, but was shortened out of courtesy to the Americans. Even so, Benjamin, the best American two-miler, was 11 seconds behind Oxford's Gilligan. While the Americans religiously...
...Americans. Either Blodgett or Yale freshman Oakley Andrews should easily win the pole vault, since Cambridge's Stuart Downhill, the best Englishman, has done only 12 ft., 5 1/2 in. Bill Markle of Yale should finish first in the shot put and his teammate Mike Pyle is the discus choice. All four high jumpers, Patrick MacKenzie and Peter Jackson of Cambridge and John deKiewiet and Marty Beckwith of Harvard are right around the 6 ft., 3 in. level, but deKiewiet is the most consistent...
...Crimson hammer throwers, Stan Doten and Jim Doty, are around the 180-ft. mark and could score well. Doten and John Bronstein could place in the discus, but the varsity's two 50-ft shot putters, Hank Abbot and Steve Cohen, may find themselves out of the running...