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...School, the '50 hockey squad will find itself in a hotbed of secondary school ice finesse. Track coach Ed Flanagan will take 33 men back to the scene of his former coaching successes for competition in the dash, 300, 600, 1000, hurdles, broad jump, high jump, pole vault shot-put and weight throw. George Appel, national scholastic indoor vault king (13 feet six inches), will unfortunately be on the other side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Track, Court, Wrestling Squads Invade Andover Tomorrow | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

...academic grind, which no West Pointer can laugh off, proved only a passing problem to Blockbuster Blanchard. Differential calculus could hardly be mastered in five easy lessons, but neither could shot-putting, for that matter. In fact, it took Doc almost a whole season to get good enough to win the Indoor Intercollegiate 16-lb. shot-put title. Starting from scratch, he worked up to a solid 50 feet in just one winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Super-Dupers | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...fall Mikkola entertained hopes of having his "big three" combination of Pete Harwood, Dave Murray, and Jeff Tootell around for spring competition. But Murray (holder of national inter-collegiate javelin crown) has been transferred to Midshipmen School, while Tootell (who entered College last November after copping the national scholastic shot-put title) has gone into the Army, leaving only Harwood, who is now a Sophomore in the V-12 program. Other men who have left include Tuttle, Atwell, Wharton, Noble, and Meanix...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Initial Track Drills Called by Jaako | 3/6/1945 | See Source »

...Tootell's best effort since he entered College last November with the Class of '48b, fresh from Tabor Academy, where he had copped the national interscholastic shot-put title. Previously during the past term, he had won easily at Tufts, Andover, and Exeter, switching in the two prep-school meets to the lighter 12 pound schoolboy shot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tootell Cops NEAAU Shot Title in Final Indoor Meet | 2/27/1945 | See Source »

Ultimate goal of the towering, touseledhaired Freshman is naturally a crack at the Harvard shot-put record, (50 feet), set back in 1940 by Mikkola-trained Howard Mendel '40, at the IC4A Championships in Harvard Stadium. And after that, there may be even greener pastures. Meanwhile, Mikkola nods his head, thinking at the same time how badly he's going to miss those much-needed shot-put points next spring. "He'll be a good man when he comes back," Jaako smiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tootell Cops NEAAU Shot Title in Final Indoor Meet | 2/27/1945 | See Source »

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