Word: discusions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity's only losing efforts, Princeton's Bob Fisher won the discus, but Neil Muncaster and deKiewiet placed second and third for the varsity; Princeton took first and second in the Landauless low hurdles, with Dave Rosenthal's third preventing the Tiger sweep...
Reider will compete in the two-mile against some of the best runners in the East. In other individual events Pat Liles and Henry Wente will enter the broad jump; Jim Doty and Dunc Johnson, the hammer; and Neil Muncaster, John deKiewiet, and Gus Moede, the discus...
Neil Muncaster won the discus with a toss of 143 feet, 5 1/4 inches, while John deKiewiet won the high jump at 6 feet, 1 inch. Skip Pescosolido won the javelin at 186 feet, 9 inches, while Sam Halaby surprised with a 12 foot, 6 inch tie for first in the pole vault...
Coach Bill McCurdy will be watching with interest the showing of his field men, especially Neil Muncaster in the discus and Skip Pescosolido in the javelin, but he will need outstanding performances from both as well as a miraculous renascense of the rapidly-fading high jumpers and broad jumpers to make a fight of it. This is too much to ask, especially against a team of Army's calibre...
...Coiling like a spring, the University of Southern California's Rink Babka, 21, spun out of his crouch and watched his discus sail beyond the marking area and plop into a ditch 201 ft. away. Goggle-eyed officials at the meet in Victorville, Calif, decided to credit the burly (6 ft. 5 in., 245 Ibs.) senior with a toss of only 198 ft. 10 in. But that was still enough to smash the 1953 world record of Minnesota's Fortune Gordien...