Word: ic4a
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diche Stadium, Evanston, only a month away, Folton is high man in this country with a heave of 180 feet, 5 1/2 inches, made at last Saturday's New York AC meet. He has won the hammer throw in every meet he has entered this spring, including the IC4A championships, and is favored to take the National Collegiate title at Minneapolis this Saturday, and the National AAU crown on July 2-3 at Milwaukee. He set new Harvard records in both the hammer and discus during the recent season...
Harvard tied for third with Penn State in the IC4A track and field meet last spring, but Coach Mikkola figures his team will be lucky to finish in the first ten tomorrow and Saturday at Randall's Island, New York. The reason is simple. Don Trimble, who won the IC4A javelin throw last spring, still can't throw without his sore elbow hurting, and he will definitely not compete at New York...
David C. Hamblett '49 of Nashua, New Hampshire, was elected captain of the 1948-49 Varsity track team last night at a meeting of this year's lettermen. Hamblett, an Exeter graduate, ran the 440 for Harvard this spring, beating Rhode Island State's IC4A champion Joe Hall, and losing out by inches to Scott Paradise and Ed Lucke in the Yale meet...
...Giegengack's power-bristling Elis are favored because they thumped the Varsity 82 to 27 in an indoor meet this winter, and because they finished second to NYU in the indoor IC4A meet at New York. They have a pair of IC4A champions in shot-putter Jim Fuchs and hurdler George Cook, plus a flock of other "name" athletes...
...with some timely advice from Coach Mikkola, he smashed his way out of the box and ran down Joe Hall in the final sprint into the yarn. Other features of Saturday's meet: Dave Hamblett's win over IC4A champion Hall in the 440; Harvey Thayer's 22-foot broadjump, the best by a Crimson athletic in several years; the good showing of Mikkola's sprinters; hurdler Pat McCormick's performances is the 120 highs and 220 lows...