Word: hammers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John deKiewiet cleared 6 ft., 2 in. for a meet record in the high jump, and broad jumper Bob Downs, hammer thrower Jim Doty, and pole vaulter Tom Blodgett contributed wins in their specialties...
Although Ed Bailey broke his own Freshman hammer record, the Yardlings lost to Princeton...
...captain Albie Gordon who precipitated the Crimson onslaught. With the meet score at 9-9 after the mile and hammer throw results were in, Gordon, Dave Brahms, and Lee Barnes took the mark against Army's Dave Gray and Ron Salter in the critical 440 race. After Barnes had set the early pace, Gordon took the lead with 200 yards to go and held off Salter's challenge with a thundering stretch drive. Brahms caught Salter to take second, and from then on the Crimson could do little wrong...
Meanwhile, big things were happening in the field events. Jim Doty finished a creditable second to Army's Ed Bagdonas in the hammer, and John deKiewiet surprised the favored Cadet high jumpers by winning the event with a 6 ft., 1 1/2 in. leap. Hank Abbot and Steve Cohen took second and third in the shot, and Stan Doten and John Bronstein added four points in the discus...
Although the Freshmen lost by three points, 71 1/2 to 68 1/2, they set two, and possibly three, new records. Mark Mullin ran the mile in 4:17.0, by seven seconds the best of his career, and Ed Bailey threw the hammer 170 ft., 9 1/2 in. to take his event by 45 feet. Bob Knapp and captain Harry Rich dead-heated in the 880 in 1:55.4, for what seems to be another Yardling record...