Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company-sponsored after-hours sports program, and the top 100 or so athletes are housed in special dormitories and given practicing hours off with pay. Barring upsets and injuries, Riccar will contribute 14 athletes to Japan's team for the Olympic Games in Tokyo this fall, and Hurdler Yoda stands the best chance of any Japanese athlete to win Japan's first postwar gold medal in track...
...Baby Bruins, who were undefeated during their indoor season, could easily have spoiled the Crimson's record. The Yardings were especially vulnerable without hurdler and broad jumper Harvey Thomas, who broke a bone in his foot last week...
Even in the running events the Bruins show weaknesses. Bob Hendon, Brown's top 120-yard high hurdler, recorded a 0:16.3 timing last week against little opposition and shouldn't push Tony Lynch or Spitzberg. Albie Booth, who posted a 0:59.4 clocking in the 440-yard intermediate hurdles probably won't either...
...indoor track team that won this year's Heps championship on a day when almost everyone went sour may be even stronger next year. Back once again are high jumper Chris Pardee, hurdler Tony Lynch. Art Croasdale in the weights, Kieth Chiappa, who could be the Ivies' premier middle-distance man. Walt Hewlett and John Ogden in the distance runs, and Aggrey Awori in just about everything. The addition of a freshman quartet that snapped the University mile-relay record, and Yardling miler Jim Smith could make the team one of the solidest ever...
...Hurdler Tony Lynch lost out in the quarter-finals of his event, eventually won by John Bethea of Morgan State...