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...from Athens, Ga., but in spirit it is right next door to Athens, Greece. Sewanee's burly boys chase not the pagan pigskin but good marks in Classics 206-"a study of Greek athletics." Purpose: to learn the arts of ancient boxing, running, wrestling, the discus, the shot and the javelin, plus "the Greek concept of athletics and its place in Greek education...
Roaming over nine centuries, and celebrating an amateurism unknown at other Southern campuses, Classics 206 also includes "labs" out on the football field. The students box Greek style, lope like Greek marathoners, toss a round stone "shot," skim a flat stone "discus," compete in wildly Hellenic wrestling free-for-alls. Winners go without Achilles' top prize, "fair-girdled women," but the exercise is splendid, and Sewanee's phys ed department is ecstatic...
...field stars dominated the meet. Husky Harold Connolly whirled the hammer 231 ft. 10 in., breaking his own world record by 1 ft. 1½ in. Miler Jim Beatty ran away from his competition to win the 1,500 meters by 8 yds. in 3 min. 39.9 sec. Discus Star Al Oerter and Broad Jumper Ralph Boston expected tough competition, but had no trouble handling their Russian rivals...
...Oerter, 25, two-time Olympic gold medal winner: the discus throw in the U.S.-Poland track meet, with a heave of 204 ft. 10½ in., breaking Russian Vladimir Trusenev's world record by 2 ft. 8 in. The U.S. won the meet...
...Soviets will shine is in the high jump, the distance races (5,000 and 10,000 meters), the javelin, and in such curiosities in the U.S. as the hop-step-and-jump, the walking race and the steeplechase. They also boast strong men in the broad jump and discus: Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, who recently broke Ralph Boston's broad jump record with a prodi gious leap of 27 ft. 3 in., and Vladimir Trusenev, who last month set a new discus record of 202 ft. 2½ in. But the U.S.'s Boston will be tough to beat...