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...massage his muscles. Yang still managed to vault 15 ft. 10½ in., enough to earn him 1,515 points on the decathlon scale -the maximum allowed. In the other nine events (100 meters, broad jump, shot-put, high jump, 400 meters, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, javelin, 1,500 meters), he picked up 7,606 more points. His total of 9,121 smashed Rafer Johnson's three-year-old world decathlon record by 438 points. Groused Yang: "I should have done better...
Harvard continued its onslaught with victories in the pole vault and the javelin, as Jay Mahaney took a surprise victory in the former with a vault of 13 ft. Recent record setter peter Lampe easily won the javelin with a throw of 209 ft. I in.; Tom Holcombe was second for the Crimson with a mark...
Once more, Crimson sprint star Aggrey Awori dominated the meet statistics, along with sophomore javelin-thrower Peeter Lampe. Awori won four first places, set two Harvard records, tied a third, and broke stadium records in three events. Awori's outstanding mark was in the 220 yd, dash, where he shattered Joel Landau's recent record of :21.0 by four-tenths of a second. Awori's time of :20.6 is undoubtedly the outstanding mark of the Crimson outdoor season...
...third University record to fall came in the javelin, where Lampe took revenge on senior Hank Hatch. Hatch had stolen Lampe's record just last week, but the sophomore regained the mark with a tremendous throw of 218 ft. 1 in., five feet beyond Hatch's mark against Princeton...
Highlighting the victory, Hank Hatch repeated the triple win he scored against Princeton on Saturday, taking first in the javelin and both hurdles events. In the 120-yard high hurdles, he sped to a superb 14.2 victory, but the strong wind prevented the time from counting as a record. His 220-yard low hurdles time, however, was a comparatively slow 26.0 seconds. In the javelin, Tom Holcombe and Hobie Armstrong took second and third behind Hatch's throw of 186 ft. 6 in. to give the Crimson a sweep of the event...