Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides Captain Brown and H. W. Clark '23 in the shut-put, strong material will be found in F. K. Kernan Jr. '24, G. A. Saxton '22, Brooks Stevens '24 and C. A. Tierney '22. Captain Brown will be assisted in the hammer-throw by S. B. Andrew '23, H. R. Bright '24, C. C. Carpenter '24, Kernan, and Benoni Lockwood...
...graduation of J. R. Tolbert 1L, will cause a gap which must be filled, and with an early start a great advantage may be gained in this direction. The hammer throwers will be instructed by Coach Farrell and by Captain Brown, who by his showing last year proved himself one of the best hammer throwers in intercollegiate track. Coach Farrell will be at the cage every day at 2.30 o'clock to instruct men in the shot put, and the hammer and discus throws...
...hammer-thrower, Brown showed remarkable development under the tutelage of field event coach E. L. Farrell, and by the end of the spring season was recognized as one of the leading weight men in the country. At the beginning of the season 140 feet was his limit, but he increased this distance to 146 feet in the Princeton meet, 149 in the Intercollegiates, and in the Cambridge-Oxford-Harvard-Yale meet he tossed the hammer 159 feet, easily beating Nokes, the Oxford star, and bettering his own previous record by over ten feet...
Beginning today the track candidates will be divided into squads, according to events, and will report on the field at the following times: sprinters, 2.45; hurdlers, 2.30; quarter-milers, 2.40; half-milers, 2.50; milers, 3.00; shot-putters, pole-vaulters, high-jumpers, broad-jumpers, discus and javelin throwers, 3.00; hammer-throwers, 3.30. The distance runners are to practice with the cross-country squad. The track work this fall will consist chiefly of drill in fundamentals. There will be little actual competition, and most of the time will be spent in improving the form of the runners and field event...
Because of my intimate associations with Prof. Hart, visiting Harvard clubs over the country and attending his lectures, I feel that I too can clasp the hand of the Harvard man and join in the Harvard yell. My college yell, evolved amid the clang of the hammer, the buzz of the wheel, and the screech of the whistle has been Rah, Rah, Rah, Work...