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Almost all today's events went according to form. Meet records fell to Crimson testants in the high jump, where shattered John Thomas' mark a 6 ft., 61/2 in, leap, and in the discus, John Bakkensen eclipsed his own with a 163 ft. heave...
John Bakkensen and Bill Pfeiffer should take one-two in the discus, and Crimson teammate John Micketts will battle Wall-in and Flora for third position. The Crimson edge in the pole vault is not so wide. Dave Bell and George Winters, the indoor Greater Boston champion, have both cleared 13 ft--6 in. higher than B.U.'s Jeff Blatt and Northeastern's Ed Speath...
Wayne Andersen's wind-aided 0:09.6 100 betters the University record. John Bakkensen's 175 ft. discus throw is only 4 ft., 9 in. short of his own Harvard mark, set late in the season last spring. Art Croasdale's hammer toss was a yard short of the 189 ft. throw that won him third place in the 1964 NCAA championships...
...weighed 210 lbs. He also averaged 15 points a game for Pampa High's basketball squad, ran 50 yds. for the winning touchdown against archrival Amarillo High, and was practically a one-man track team-heaving the 12-lb. shot 66 ft. 10½ in., hurling the discus 192 ft. 3 in., running 100 yds. in 10.3 sec. More than 100 colleges made him offers, and the University of Southern California assigned Old Grads Long and Parry O'Brien to take the prize prospect in tow. They proudly showed him the library, the dormitories, all those long-legged...
Then what? Well, if he gets bored, he can switch to the discus. Two weeks ago, just for kicks, he hurled one 201 ft. 5½ in.-a foot farther than Al Oerter's winning throw at the 1964 Olympics...