Word: hurdlers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprises came from people like long jumper Jim Johnson, triple jumper Shawn Hall, sprinter Marc Chapus and hurdler Chuck Johnson, all of whom won their events. These fine performances, added to the customary superb distance running from All-Americans Thad McNulty, John Murphy and Adam Dixon, as well as Noel Scidmore, Peter Johnson and others, to provide the Crimson with...
...throughout the league can attest, was an emphatic yes. And if he is not as well known at the car-rental counter as OJ. Simpson, on the football field, bird-legged, black-bearded Dan Fouts (as in shouts) has become as potent an offensive weapon as the airport baggage hurdler was in his prime. In just 10 games, Fouts has passed for a league-leading 2,479 yds., and his 63.2% completion percentage puts him first among the N.F.L.'s 28 starting quarterbacks. On his strong arm, the Chargers climbed to a tie with Denver in the American Football...
...visitors' roles would be played by understudies. Though some 2,500 outsiders were on hand to vie for medals with 10,000 Soviets, many foreign stars chose either to remain home or compete elsewhere. The U.S. track and field team, for example, arrived without such mainstays as Hurdler Edwin Moses, Miler Francie Larrieu, High Jumper Franklin Jacobs and Middle Distance Runner Steve Scott. Even the East Germans seemed to have better things to do, preferring to concentrate on this week's European Cup track competition in Turin...
Taylor, a miler and two miler from San Mateo, Calif., set a record for Harvard women in the 3000 meters this season and was part of the relay team which broke the Harvard mark in the the two mile relay. Harper is a hurdler and long jumper from Worcester, whom coach Pappy Hunt called a "top scorer this season...
...Hurdler Lance Miller joined the casualty list when he pulled a muscle in the 400-meter intermediate preliminaries. He has company, though: all-American John Murphy, versatile jumper Sola Mahoney, freshman long jumper Bennett Midlo, high jumper Mike Young and triple jumper Louis Edozien...