Word: discuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's strongest suit lies in the throwingevents, including the hammer throw, shot put,discus and javelin. Harry Rothschild won the shotin last week's pre-season meet, while Nic Sweeneytook first in the discus and Matt Collins won thejavelin throw...
Freshman Nicolas Sweeney is Harvard's top discus thrower. Haggerty predicts, "Nic Sweeney should be one of the top in the league...
Later in the day, a women's discus thrower from Boston College let me examine her practice discus. It weighed less than five pounds. With such a light weight, I wondered why discus throwers didn't throw the discus like a frisbee. But when I tried to hold the discus in a classic frisbee-throwing position, I found it difficult to do so. No edge had been formed on the outer rim around which I could wrap my fingers...
...weight events, junior James Russell, who has already qualified for the national championships, captured the hammer throw with a throw of 194-ft., 3-in. Sophomore Joe Giani nabbed second in the discus with a toss...
...according to Haggerty, the Crimson was not even in full gear yesterday. "We gave away points on the shot and the discus [and] we held Erin Sugrue out of the triple jump," Haggerty said. "It's very important before the Heptagonals and after the Penn Relays [held last week] to keep constant attention to injuries...