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...freshmen won 78 1/2 to 62 1/2 and Bon Twitchell took two firsts and two seconds, and Bob Rittenburg took a first, two seconds, a third, and ran on the second place mile relay team...
Twitchell won the 120 high hurdles in 15.2, with Rittenburg second. And he won the 220 low hurdles in 23.5, with Yale's Larry Reno second and Rittenburg third. He took second and Rittenburg third. He took second behind Yale's former polio victim Hank Thresher in both the 100 and 220. Thresher wasn't bothered by anything as he did a sizzling 9.8 in the 100, and 20.8 in the 100, and 20.8 in the 220. The latter would have been a record except for the back wind...
...Rittenburg won the high jump with a leap of six feet two, his best outdoor performance this season. He placed be hind the Eli's Dick Goss in the board jump by one and 5-8 inches. Goss cleared 22 feet 7 inches. Bob Mello also cleared 22 feet, but took third...
Reno was a heavy favorite in last year's freshman hurdles. His times were better than the Crimson's Bob Rittenburg, but Rittenburg beat him that day, and won three other events. Rittenburg also took two firsts in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular meet this winter...
...Mello placed second behind Rittenburg in the broad jump, and then cleared 12 feet 9 inches in the pole vault for a first. And Carl Goldman, who had never won an event before, threw the javelin 162 feet 91/2 inches for a first place. Goldman also took second in the hammer throw, behind the Crimson's Bob Curran...