Word: harpel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take the Army meet, for instance. On paper, the Cadets loomed as the strongest team in the Heptagonal league. Senior weight thrower Pete Harpel set the tenor of the meet in the first event. He threw the 35-pound ball 55 feet, 6 inches, six feet farther than his best last season, to pick up the first place for the varsity...
Actually, the team contained a nucleus of consistent performers who could be counted on for big points in every meet. Two-miler Pete Reider, captain Dick Wharton, Jim Cairns, record-holder in both the 600 and the 1000, and Harpel, all seniors but Reider, had been the big point producers for three years...
John DuMoulin had never thrown the weight prior to this season, yet he threw 54 feet, 2 inches to win the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular meet, much to the consternation of the favoured Yalies. He placed fourth behind Harpel in the Heptagonals...
...Harpel has topped the record of 56 feet 10 1/2 inches several times in practice, but never in competition. This will be his last indoor meet...
Attention will focus on Pete Harpel's last chance at the Crimson 35-pound weight record this evening in the University of Connecticut Relays at Storrs...