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Aggrey Awori, the record-breaking hurdler and sprinter, and newly-elected captain Art Croasdale will lead the Yardlings against the Yale and Princeton freshmen. Croasdale, normally a 55 ft. shot putter, will be hampered by an injured hand
...Laris and Nick Jennison lead a fine group of middle and long-distance runners who will press the Crimson in the 1000, mile, and two-mile, as well as the two-mile relay. Hurdler and broad jumper John Knight should also pile up some points...
...Bulldog hurdler Jay Luck, out since the Penn Relays with a pulled leg muscle, is unable to perform tomorrow, the Elis will lose 10 sure points and perhaps their margin of victory. Even a Yale victory in the climactic mile relay--by no means a sure thing without Luck--would leave the Elis about three points behind the Crimson, if all goes well...
...have improved, rather than developed, so far this spring. During the winter, hopes for a good outdoor season were dimmed with the injury of the versatile Tom Blodgett, who pulled a thigh muscle at the Army meet last February. Blodgett can be, at various times, the team's best hurdler, broad jumper pole valuter and javelin thrower, and the squad is tremendously dependent upon him. Reports that Blodgett had recovered were confirmed in the outdoor Army meet Saturday. When he collected four firsts in five events...
...past six years Johnson's life has been dominated by the decathlon. In recent months he lived for little else. Now a U.C.L.A. graduate student in physical education, Rafer Johnson shares an $83-a-month apartment with his brother Jim, a U.C.L.A. football player and a hurdler of near-Olympic caliber. Johnson has had no time for dates or vacations, and little relaxation beyond strumming a guitar. Every afternoon he got into his 1949 Chevrolet, a vehicle plainly showing its 150,000-mile past, and drove out to the U.C.L.A. field to practice...