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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Competing at Eugene will be captain-elect Art Croasdale in the shot and hammer, junior John Bakkensen in the discus, sophomores Chris Pardee in the high jump and Tony Lynch in the 400 meter hurdles, senior Chris Ohiri in the triple jump, and juniors John Ogden in the 800 meter run and Aggrey Awori in the high hurdles...
These Wildcat scores put the writing on the wall, but it took an incredible 11-point Villanova outburst in the grueling 3000-meter steeplechase to convince the Crimson die-hards. Zwolak got the win within 9:25.7; Dave Hyland notched second place in 9:40, and the third Wildcat cohort, Marty Ferko, took fifth in 9:51. The Crimson contingent of Ed Meehan, Dave Allen, Keith Chiappa, and John Ogden failed to score...
...deal better in light air." Columbia, the 1958 victor, will be on hand with the first West Coast crew ever to take a crack at Cup competition. Cornelius Shields has sold her to California Yachtsman Thomas Patrick Dougan, and her new skipper will be Walter Podolak, 50, whose 10-meter yacht Coquille dominates racing in its class along the West Coast, has won 14 of its last 15 races. And finally Easterner, Boston Banker Chandler Hovey's "family boat," will be back for one last try at yachting's Holy Grail. "We have changed the rigging," says Skipper...
...California: the Western Intercollegiate Rowing championship on San Diego's Mission Bay, beating Washington by one-half length. Rowing against strong tides over a 2,000-meter course, the undefeated Golden Bear crew pulled away from Washington at 1,000 meters, held its margin with a strong 40 strokes per minute, became early favorites, along with Harvard, for the Olympic trials this July...
...California's Dallas Long easily won the shotput with a toss of 65 ft. 51 in. (14 in. shy of his pending world record); and Arizona State's Henry Carr beat Florida A. & M.'s Bob Hayes, the "world's fastest human," in the 200-meter dash...