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Repeating last year's not too successful experiment, Samborski has scheduled an intramural track meet for the middle of October. The meet, which will include discus and javelin throwing, and 12-pound shot put besides the usual racing and jumping events, should give the track coaching staff an opportunity to look over available material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAMBORSKI PLANS FRESHMAN INTRA-MURAL SPORT PROGRAM | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

Then, to prove that his was no one-groove arm, he broke the ten-year-old intercollegiate record for the discus throw with a flip of 167 ft. 4⅜ in., less than seven feet under the world's record set by Germany's Willi Schroeder five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 36 Tries, 19 Records | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

FIELD EVENTS Pole Vault (Trials and Final)2:00 Shot Put (Final) 2:00 Javelin Throw (Final) 2:45 High Jump (Trials and Final) 3:00 Discus Throw (Final) 3:00 Broad Jump (Final) 3:00 Hammer Throw (Final) 3:30 TRACK EVENTS 120-yd. High Hurdles (Semi-Finals) 2:45 100-yd. Dash (Semi-Finals) 2:55 One Mile Run 3:05 120-yd. High Hurdles (Heat for extra qualifiers) 3:15 440-yd. Run (Final) 3:25 120-yd. High Hurdles (Final) 3:35 100-yd. Dash (Final) 3:45 Two Mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time Schedule | 5/31/1940 | See Source »

With Al Blozis, the Georgetown giant, the favorite in the discus throw, second place may well go to Al Morro, B. C. Sophomore. California's Barney Wolf and Penn's Ed Beetem are the other standouts in this field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IC4A Track Meet Promises to Be Crammed With Close Races | 5/29/1940 | See Source »

...holds the American record in the 160-pound shot put at 55 ft. 10 1/2 in., and he may break this record, the I.C.A.A.A.A. record, and perhaps Jack Torrance's World Record in the Stadium pit, which this week has been enlarged to accommodate Blozis. He has thrown the discus 161 ft. 2 in. in competition and over 180 feet in practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. of C., Penn State, Pitt Clash on IC4A Track at Stadium Friday; Lightbody Crimson Hope | 5/28/1940 | See Source »

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