Word: seagren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disagrees sharply. "I think our position was that of a catalyst. We speeded up the reactions of people on both sides. We received support from the basketball team, the fencing team, the gymnastics team, and Hal and Olga Connolly. On the other hand, there were Randy Matson and Bob Seagren, who saw us as Berkeley radicals. They felt you represent the red, white, and blue for Grandma and apple pie and that...
...they kept the band working, Americans set record after record. Texas' strapping Randy Matson won the shotput and set an Olympic record of 67 ft. 10¾ in.; California's Bob Seagren soared to another new Olympic mark by clearing 17 ft. 8½ in. in the pole vault. In the short dashes, California's Jim Hines clocked 9.9 sec. in the men's 100 meters to tie his own pending world record, and Georgia's Wyomia Tyus won the women's 100 in 11 sec. flat. Then, in the field events, there...
...meter intermediate hurdles. Another Californian, Jim Hines, tied the world mark of 10 sec. flat in the 100-meter dash. Army SP/4 Tom Farrell ran one of the fastest 800 me ters of the year when he was clocked in 1 min. 46.5 sec. And California's Bob Seagren soared over the pole-vault bar at 17 ft. 9 in. to break the world record...
Villanova has two other IC4A title-holders in Charles Messenger in the two-mile and Erv Hall in the 60-yard high hurdles. And Villanova pole vaulter Vince Bizzarro, whose 16'7 3/4" vault beat Bob Seagren in Januuary, will probably be unchallenged in that event...
Steve Schoonover cleared 15'6" in the pole vault but missed at 16' 1" as Bob Seagren went on to a 17-foot vault. The Harvard freshmen beat B.C., UMass, and Holy Cross in a mile relay and Exeter topped Andover for the fourth straight year...