Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lenz took the hammer for the Crimson with a toss of 191 ft., followed by teammates Ed Ajootian and Tom McDevitt. Chris Queen took first in the shot with a throw of 52-ft., 10 1/4-in., and Geoff Stiles went 14-ft., 6-in. to take the pole vault in the absence of Yale competition...
Harvard wasted no time racking up points in the first couple of field events, consistently their strongest areas. Tom Lenz and Ed Adjootian took first and second place for Harvard and scored personal highs by hurling the hammer more than 190 feet...
Henry Moore, English sculptor: "You get into a rhythm of swinging the hammer in a way that the swing does the work. It's like any other game. Like golf...
After sweeping the hammer and the triple jump events, the Harvard track team could muster only four more wins in the other 16 events, and the Crimson dropped its second consecutive heartbreaker--this one to Princeton, 83-71, Saturday in Lawrenceville...
...Lenz (57.92 meters), Ed Ajootian, and Tom McDevitt started off on the right track, sweeping the hammer throw; and Hasan Kayali (47 ft. 9 in.), Sola Mahoney and Bruce Brooks added a second Crimson-only finish in the triple jump. But the field-event dominance died fast with a pair of upsets...