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Benka and Schoonover both set University records in their events less than a week ago in the IC4A's, where Harvard placed second to Villanova. Benka won the shot put title with a 57' 7 1/4" throw. Schoonover vaulted 15'8" to place third...
Harvard's second place finish in last Saturday's IC4A Indoor Championships should convince even the most stubborn skeptics that the Crimson track team has become a power, able to hold its own against the country's finest talent...
...formation of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) gave collegiate track the biggest boost it would ever get--it held its first meet that year at Saratoga, New York, offering a huge silver cup as a trophy to the team winning the most IC4A titles between then...
...first, Harvard wasn't too enthusiastic. Harvard track had been formally organized since 1874, when the Harvard Athletic Association was created. But in 1876 there was little interest in track, and Harvard's few entrants in the first IC4A meet did miserably. Princeton...
...Crimson ended up winning the meet for six straight years, and 10 times in all in the next 12. Harvard's winning streak was broken only in 1887 and 1889--distastefully, by Yale. In the '89--13 years after the first IC4A meet--Harvard was given permanent possession of the silver trophy cup--recognizing the Crimson as the country's first intercollegiate track power...