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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marked contrast to Houser was Ralph Hills of Princeton who was forced to improve the association record to win the title from Houser last year, I have never seen a shot putter with a more marvelous lift than Hills. If he had had the drive and energy of Houser, I believe that he would have smashed Ralph Roset's record of 51 feet. The first man who can combine the qualities of Houser and Hills will put the shot 54 feet...
...white lime lines and present day knowledge of what constitutes a good performance means that a notable drive will get due recognition. It would be a happy coincidence if fifty feet was reached for the first time after exactly fifty years of competition and no one would begrudge the record holder the thrill that such a put would bring. All that is needed to produce a record is ideal weather...
...meets the winning put has exceeded 47 feet on eight occasions, including the last four successive meets. The record has been improved 20 times in 50 years, the improvement in this event having been more gradual than in any of the original events on the program. Athletes from 15 colleges have won the event, including: Yale, 10 times; Princeton, 9; Harvard, 7; Columbia, 4; Dartmouth, 4; Penn, 2; Michigan, 2; Stanford, 2; Stevens, 2; Swarthmore, 2; California, Cornell, Lafayette, New York University, and Maine, 1 each...
Hurdling has changed considerably since the first Intercollegiate meet in 1876, at which time there was practically no technique and there was little time spent to perfect the form: the record then being 18 1-4 seconds. H. Mapes of Columbia was the first college athlete to negotiate the distance in better than 17 seconds, his performance in 1889 being 16 4-5 seconds. L. H. Williams of Yale in 1891 was the first college athlete to do better than 16 seconds in the Intercollegiate Meet, doing that year 15 4-5 seconds. In 1895 Steve Chase of Dartmouth...
...team from Williamstown comes with a strange record. They held Princeton to four runs while they nicked. Fowler, the Tiger hurler, for a single tally. A week later B. U., conquerors of Harvard, suffered a shutout at their hands, while the Williams sluggers drove in six runs. These victories are balanced by a defeat from the invading Bruins when the Providence team staged a laterally. Columbia took their measure in 11 innings and Wesleyan swamped them by a score of 16 to 1, amassing a total of 18 hits before the curtain was rung down...