Word: felton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olympic polevaulter was invited to compete by Sam Felton, who broke the Crimson discus and hammer records last year and is now at the Business School. Felton will get the meet under-way himself with a 35-pound weight throwing demonstration...
First, the Crimson is still as strong as ever in the weights. After last year's Olympic finalist Sam Felton (now in the Busy School) had defeated Dank Dreyer of the New York AC and Dartmouth's track captain, Jim Burnham, in an exhibition 35-pound weight competition, his undergraduate sucessors proceeded to sweep the practice meet 35-pound weight event. And big Don Trible had no trouble winning the 16-pound shot, with a good early season toss of 46 feet, 81/2 inches...
Outstanding weight-tossers Sam Felton '48, Harry Dreyer, and Jim Burnham will compete at Briggs Cage this afternoon in an official try for the AAU 35-1b. weight throw record. The contest will start at 1 p.m. and precede the full but informal track meet with BU and Northeastern...
...Felton took fourth place in the 1948 Olympic hammer throw, while Dreyer, of the New York Athletic Association, was nine times national champion in the 35-lb. weight class. Burnham, captain of the Dartmouth track team, will attempt to break the Dartmouth record in this event, and if as he is up to form has a good chance of doing...
...interested, look for Harvard's Sam Felton throwing the hammer. And you might try to figure out what peculiar from of madness drives a man to throw himself down a twisting track of ice on a three-foot sled at sixty miles an hour...