Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany's Helmut Haller slipped a screen shot past Goalie Gordon Banks. The English bounced back, went ahead 2 to 1, and the victory celebration had already started in the stands when-oops!-Germany's Wolfgang Weber booted the ball home to tie the score, with 30 sec. to go. Into overtime it went, and for ten long minutes it looked as though the two weary teams (no substitutes are permitted in soccer) might still be playing next week. Then Geoff Hurst got his second wind, ramming in a five-footer for one goal and scoring the clincher...
Which hardly seems fair, since Toomey can broad-jump 25 ft. 6 in., run the 100-meter dash in 10.3 sec. (just .3 sec. off the world record), and Hodge, who still goes to college, can heave the 16-lb. shot 56 ft. 7½ in. - good enough by itself to coin an Olympic gold medal in 1948. Last month at the U.S. decathlon championships in Salina, Kans., Toomey scored 8,234 points under the complicated performance tables, and Hodge scored 8,130 to put both over the old world record of 8,089 set in 1963 by Nationalist China...
...Ryun. The lanky, 19-year-old University of Kansas sophomore had faithfully logged his usual 120 miles a week in practice and competed in 30 meets from New York to California. He set U.S. records for 800 meters and two miles, ran the fastest half mile (1 min. 44.9 sec.) in history. But he failed by one-tenth of a second to tie Michel Jazy's world record for the mile. That mile mark was Jim's real goal-no American had held it in 29 years-but now it would have to wait. Ryun was tired...
Rumors that a record attempt was in the offing brought 15,000 spectators to Berkeley's Edwards Track Stadium, and most of them were on their feet when Von Ruden and Romo, setting the early pace, zipped past the quarter-mile mark in 57.7 sec., with Ryun patiently running a close-up third. Romo passed the lead to Bell during the second quarter; the half-mile time was 1 min. 55.4 sec. In the third lap, Ryun outran his rabbits. He flashed past Romo-"running like a bull," said Romo later-took off after Bell, and with...
Momentarily, the crowd quieted. Then the public-address system boomed: "A new world's record . . ." The roar that followed almost drowned out the announcement of Ryun's time. The judges had clocked him at 3 min. 51.3 sec.-a fantastic 2.3 sec. faster than Jazy's year-old record...