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Dope sheets concede Yale between 45 and 56 points, but it is extremely doubtful if the eventual winner will garner more than 50 points. The Elis' strength in the hurdles, pole vault, and javelin throw bids fair to turn the tide in favor of the Blue...
...Folsom layer containing typical Folsom spearpoints, charcoal, bones of sloths and catlike carnivores not yet identified; under that a layer of "sterile" yellow ochre (containing no bones or implements), showing that the cave was uninhabited during a wet spell; under that the Sandia layer (see cut), containing lance or javelin points, remains of fires, bones of elephants, horses, camels, sloths and bison...
John MacKinnon won both the high and low hurdles, and Ted Graves, Fred Phinney, and Paul Cook swept the half-mile event, but Andover took all places in the javelin and broad jump...
...championship in the shot put, broad jump and discus three years in a row, he has cleared the high jump at 6 ft. 5 ¾ in., has run 100 yd. in 10.1 sec., 440 yd. in 55 sec. If he can brush up on the pole vault, javelin, high hurdles and the 1,500-meter run, he may be America's best bet for the 1940 Decathlon championship...
...exception of the substitution of a three-mile for a two-mile run, the track events in the meet will not differ from American distance. The field events, however, will be pared down to broad jump, high jump, pole vault, and shot put, criminating the discus, hammer and javelin thrown...