Word: dixons
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...good news came from Darlene Beckford, who won the 800-meter race at the AIAW championships in Pocatello, Idaho, Saturday, establishing herself as the top female collegiate half-miler in the country and becoming the first-ever Ivy League All-American in women's track. Meanwhile, in Detroit, Adam Dixon, fresh from a 1500-meter victory at the IC4As the previous weekend, supplied the bad news in placing an anti-climactic fifth at the NCAA Indoor Championships...
Beckford and Dixon were the only Harvard representatives at the men's and women's respective championships, and both came home with All-American honors...
Unfortunately for Harvard, the breaks went against Dixon in Detroit. Hampered by painful blisters on his left foot and a board 11-lap track with tight turns. Dixon clocked 4:03.97--two seconds off the winning time...
Describing his fifth-place finish as "pretty disappointing." Dixon said yesterday his blisters affected his training more than his running in the actual race. The junior held fifth position the whole race, but his highly respected finishing kick, which has become somewhat of a Dixonian trademark, never materialized...
...Dixon's time was only half a second slower than his lifetime best but two weekends ago he ran the 1500 meters at the IC4As at a four-minute clip. In that race, Dixon beat Saturday's third-place finisher Louis Ostolozaga...