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...South since 1914. (The A.A.U. arranged for a special Pullman car to San Antonio, so their Negro contestants would not have to ride in Jim Crow cars.) The only new world's record set at San Antonio: burly ex-Coast Guardsman Bob Fitch of Minnesota hurled the discus 179 ft. ⅛ in., bettering Italian Adolfo Consolini's mark by more than four feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Slow Starting Swede | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...first place winners; Pete Harwood, outstanding New England pole vaulter, who successfully defended the crown he won last year with a vault of 12 feet, 6 inches, and Bill Jackson, whose 47 feet, 5 5/3 inch shot put garnered that event. Jackson also took third place in the discus throw, won by Dartmouth's Sam Felton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Third in N.E. Track Meet | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...from New Haven called Yale. By the simple process of winning 11 of the 15 first places, the Crimson dumped the Blue 81 2/3 to 53 1/3. Bob Clark had an afternoon for himself, winning the 440 and 220, as did Bill Jackson, who copped the shot put and discus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

Bill Jackson, one of Jaakko Mikkola's standbys in the discus and the shot put, has been a steady performer all spring, even though the competition provided by Doc Blanchard and Ralph Davis of West Point was a little too much for him last week...

Author: By Wallace I. Green, | Title: Crimson Track Squad Sends Eight Men to IC4A Games | 5/25/1946 | See Source »

Against Yale Jackson put the shot 47 feet 101/8 inches, his best mark of the year, and hurled the discus 136 feet 83/4 inches, also his top performance...

Author: By Wallace I. Green, | Title: Crimson Track Squad Sends Eight Men to IC4A Games | 5/25/1946 | See Source »

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