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Sophomore Ed Nosal and senior captain Dick Benka, who combined to sweep the shot, hammer, and discus Saturday and helped provide a comfortable point cushion for Bill McCurdy's runners, split the weight awards as well. Benka, undefeated in the shot, and Hep, IC4A, and Greater Boston champion, received the Little Shot Put Award for the third consecutive year, while Nosal won the Carver weight award...
...edge in the process, and captured 18 of the 24 places in the events. Captain Dick Benka, ending his career in magnificent style, was the winner of the meet's outstanding performer award as he captured both the shot put (56 ft. 4 1/2 in.) and the discus (179 ft. 6 in.). His toss in the discus set a Harvard-Yale meet record...
...Frank Champi completed a Crimson sweep in the weight throws, as Nosal captured the hammer throw with 171 ft. 2 in. distance and Champi outthrew teammate Richie Szaro in the javelin with a heave of 228 ft. 11 in. Yale's Tom Neville, who placed second in the discus, was the only Bulldog to place in the weight events...
...course, it should be a very close meet," McCurdy said. "But if we can pick up our expected total in the field events, and hold our own in the distance events we should have a good chance," he added. He listed the distance events, discus, and jumping events as those which would be the most accurate indicators of the meet's outcome...
...discus is the only weight event in which Yale will be a threat. Its top man in the event, Tom Neville, has thrown the platter past the 170-foot mark this season, further than any Crimson thrower. Harvard captain Dick Benka, however, edged Neville for second place in the Heps with a throw of 169 ft. 1 in., barely a foot shy of Neville's best career throw...