Word: shot-put
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...Super Shot-Put...
...team's main contribution to the varsity will be in the field events. Both Pete Lazarus and Dennis Voytovich have cleared 13 feet in the pole vault and Dick Benka, Charles Ajootian, and Bruce Hedendal comprise a powerful trio in the weight throw and shot-put. Benka leads the shot-put with consistent heaves of over 50 feet, while Ajootion tops the weight throw with a 48-3 effort...
...other field events, Ohiri and Aggrey Awori, both 24 ft., 6 in. broad jumpers, will team with Pardee and Sid Marland to give the Crimson a strangle-hold on that event against virtually any competition. Croasdale will pace the shot-put forces, with Ray Frieden and Bob Harrington in supporting roles...
...Crimson, fresh from a startling 75-34 rout of Army can expect competition only in the shot-put, where Terrier ace Tony Farfero will make things rough for Art Croasdale, and in whatever events B.U. captain Ed Tantorski decides...
...Walnut, his legs were racked with cramps, and Coach Drake had to massage his muscles. Yang still managed to vault 15 ft. 10½ in., enough to earn him 1,515 points on the decathlon scale -the maximum allowed. In the other nine events (100 meters, broad jump, shot-put, high jump, 400 meters, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, javelin, 1,500 meters), he picked up 7,606 more points. His total of 9,121 smashed Rafer Johnson's three-year-old world decathlon record by 438 points. Groused Yang: "I should have done better...