Word: gourdine
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Whatever marks the Class of '21 left on Harvard, perhaps none has stood the test of time as well as the University broad jump record of 25' 3" set 50 years ago this July by the late Ned Gourdin '21. Harvard's second-oldest track record is only 13 years...
...Gourdin made his famous leap on July 23 at Harvard Stadium in the Harvard-Yale -Oxford-Cambridge meet, which the Americans won easily. The jump also broke the existing world record of 24' 11 3/4" set in 1901, and Gourdin went on to finish second in the 1924 Olympics...
...Gourdin also distinguished himself in other activities. After serving as a special justice on the Judicial Council and as an assistant U. S. Attorney, he became in 1958 one of the first blacks named to Massachusetts's Superior Court bench. He died in Quincy in 1966, two days before the 45th anniversary of his world-record performance...
Once again, no one came close to breaking the meet record in the broad jump (25'3") set 50 years ago by Ned Gourdin '21 Harvard's Olympian. S. H. White of Oxford was the winner last night with a leap...
...Harvard's records was set in the Oxford-Cambridge meet 50 years ago in Harvard Stadium when Ned Gourdin '21 jumped 25'-3" in the broad jump. Gourdin was the first man to exceed 25 feet, and his performance that day set a world record. Even this year, the two jumpers Yale is sending have not equalled 24 feet...