Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essential qualifications for a successful hammer thrower are height, weight and strength coupled with speed in throwing. The training in this event for the college man consists of many years of concentrated work. It is, however, quite possible to develop a thrower during his college career, to break Tootell's present record of 181 feet 6 1-2 inches. Tootell himself never had any scholastic experience but took up this event for the first time during his undergraduate days at college...
...asset for quick development is the practice with the 35 pound weight. As coach and trainer of Tootell, I discovered that he progressed rapidly with a lot of speedy work with this modified hammer and that this, combined with plenty of gymnasium exercise, kept him steadily increasing in weight and strength. Constant practice remedying defects and patience to conquer any such is bound to develop perfect coordination. I firmly believe there is more technique used in developing a man in controlling himself while turning three times in a restricted circle of seven feet in diameter than in any other event...
...hammer throw record has been lowered in half a century of I. C. A. A. A. A. competition: Years record ct. in stood 1877--G. D. Parmley, Princeton 75 10 1 1878--F. Larkin, Princeton 76 9 1 1879--F. Larkin, Princeton 87 1 1 1882--D. R. Porter, Columbia 87 2 1/2 3 1883--C. H. Kip, Harvard 88 11 1 1886--A. B. Coxe, Yale 95 11 3 1887--A. B. Coxe, Yale 98 6 1 1891--J. R. Finlay, Harvard 107 7 1-2 4 1893--W. O. Hickok, Yale...
...meritorious performances considering the lack of background they possessed. There is little to prove whether these trail-blazers ran up-hill or down-hill; whether the records were established with or without the aid of the wind, and in those days the circles for the shot-putters and hammer throwers were not so well defined as the steel rings which...
...High jump 5.08 1-4 5.11 1-2 6.02 1-6 Pole vault 9.07 1-4 11.04 1-6 12.06 1-2 Broad jump 20.10 3-4 22.07 3-4 23.05 1-4 Shot put 36.08 1-4 43.02 1-2 47.01 1-2 Hammer...