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NCAA weight titlist Ed Nosal is heavily favored in the hammer, but he will need a clutch performance to oust Princeton's Steve Saner in the shot and discus. Frank Champi and Richie Szaro appear impregnable in the javelin for Harvard...
...Crimson's other NCAA. ???list, Ed Nosal, showed no signs of feeling anything less than perfect as he threw the hammer 175 feet the discus 151 feet, and won the shot against LSU with a toss of 49 feet...
...with the possible exception of show business, no other field today is as fully integrated as sports. But while the sport establishment likes to congratulate itself on the increasing numbers of blacks in its ranks, black athletes react with a resounding "so what." Says Harry Edwards, the militant former discus thrower who almost succeeded in organizing a black athletes' boycott of the 1968 Olympics: "Sports reeks of the same racism that corrupts other areas of our society...
With the exception of the shot put and discus, both weakened by last year's graduation. Harvard is strong in the field events. Long jumper Noel Hare finished third in the NCAA's last month, and javelin thrower Richie Szaro holds the New England intercollegiate record...
...chances for individual victories lie in the weight events, where it has four throwers who started during the regular season. Senior Captain Dick Benka will be a prime favorite in the shot put, an event he captured in the indoor IC4A's this winter, and might also enter the discus throw, an event in which he is only three inches shy of the University record...