Word: hammer-throw
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...number of winning track teams in the past, and no very revolutionary changes have occurred since victories were the rule. With 2,500 men to draw from, the amount of raw material is sufficient for two track teams. Yet in 1915 Harvard had only one entry for the hammer-throw and three entries for the pole-vault in the Yale meet. Last year Harvard entered three men to Yale's eleven in the hammer-throw, and three men to Yale's ten in the high jump. At the beginning of this winter's season fifty men reported for practice...
...Yale meet last year, and the graduation of G. G. Haydock '16 has left the pole vault without one good vaulter, and incidentally, the team without a single man who has won his "H" in a field event. The 1919 track squad was also noticeably weak in the hammer-throw, shot put and pole vault, but it has sent men up to the University squad who, with training, should develop into able performers. They are C. A. Clark '19 in the shot put, and A. R. Frey '19 and A. Perkins '19, in the high jump. W. H. Wheeler...
...changes of the hammer-throw and shot-put records are very marked. E. D. Brandegee '81 threw the 16-pound hammer 59 feet 8 inches in 1879. This record has been practically tripled, since the present record of T. Cable '13, made in 1913, is 162 feet 4 1-2 inches...
...squad consists of the following men: L. Nichols, high-jump, broad-jump, and pole-vault; F. Maker, high and broad-jump; C. Monlux, hammer-throw and discus; D. Richardson, hammer-throw and shot-put; C. Gildersleeve, hammer-throw, and discus; H. Tirerer sedge, shot-put, javelin-throw, and discus; E. K. Lockard, broad-jump and pole-vault; A. H. Elson, hammer-throw; J. R. Frisble, pole-vault; and J. Jackson, broad and high-jump...
...Hammer-throw.--Won by E. R. Roberts '16 (scratch); second, W. S. Blanchard '17 (10 ft.); third, W. B. Snow '18 (35 ft.). Distance...