Word: discusion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Discus Throw--Harvard record: 138 ft. 3 1-4 in. by C. C. Carpenter '24. 1928 winner, David Guarnacia '29.HOPES TO REPEAT LAST YEAR'S TRIUMPH IN JAVELIN THROW T. G. MOORE...
Fourteen prizes in as many events have been put up by various Harvard alumni, the discus throw being the only event on the program for which there is no special award for the victor. Each year the name of the victor is inscribed upon the cup for his event, and this year as a new departure, the winner will also receive a picture of the cup. Medals are awarded for second and third places in each event...
...would win them a place on almost any college track team. Among these is John Crowley, of the Roxbury School in Cheshire, Connecticut, who has attained renown in interscholastic circles as a weight man and jumper. He has heaved the 12-pound shot 51 feet 9 inches and the discus well over 140 feet. He can high jump 5 feet 9 inches and has covered over 20 feet in the broad jump. J. S. Birge also of Roxbury School has stepped the 100 in 10 seconds flat and has been clocked in the furlong in 22 seconds...
Despite the keen competition, Andover hopes to retain its title with the aid of Captain Houston in the discus, shot, and javelin; Moore in the jumps; Osborne in the dashes, and Allen and Pitkin in the hurdles...
...Moines four lean-legged youths named Trimble, Burkhardt, Rogers and Sentman, leaped over high hurdles for 480 yds. in shuttle relay, in world's record time of 1 min. 2 3 10 sec. Also in Des Moines, West Pointer Carl Jark, with mighty ventral effort, sailed his discus 158 ft., 3 in., another record...