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Champion's Confidence. A lineal descendant of the ancient pentathlon,* the decathlon is the most searching test of athletic skill and endurance ever devised: four running events (100, 400 & 1,500 meters and the 110-meter hurdles); six field events (javelin, discus, shotput, pole vault, high jump and broad jump). At 21, already a veteran of eight decathlon meets, four times national champion and the world recordholder, handsome Bob Mathias meets to a remarkable degree the physical specification for this Olympic challenge. He is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), with the reaching stride of a hurdler or high-jumper...
...Mathias knocked over three of the ten barriers, but still managed to beat his best previous decathlon time, 0:14.7, by a tenth of a second. He threw the discus nearly 158 ft., pole-vaulted 12 ft. 3 3/4 in. (9 inches under his best mark), made a prodigious javelin throw of nearly 194 ft., and wound up his two nights' work with a 4:55.3 clocking in the 1,500-meter...
...meet the informal Harvard squad tallied 21 points. Dave Cairns took a third in the 3000 meter run, while Don Trimble, Bob Mello, and Dick Barwise took seconds in the javelin, pole vault, and high jump, respectively. Trimble, a 1950 graduate who holds the University javelin record, competed for the first time this year at the AAU meet. Phil Pratt and Bob Curran took fourths in the discus and hammer to round out the scoring...
Winners were Jim Ladd of Eliot House in the shot put with 46 feet; Herb Collins of Dudley in the javelin with 150 feet; and Brint Donaldson of Kirkland in the high jump with 5 feet, 6 inches...
...Crimson will be relying heavily on Bob Ray, Phil Pratt, Fred Raverby, Bob Mello, Dick Barwise, and Bob Curran. Ray will have to better his best spring mark in the shot to beat Yale's Phil Swett and Roy Meyers. Pratt and Ravreby could win the discus and javelin respectively, while Mello is expected to take the pole vault...