Word: shot-put
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Except for the high jump, where Spitzberg's absence will hurt, the varsity should practically sweep the field events. The Tigers can offer the Crimson little competition in the broad jump, hop-step-and-jump, hammer throw, discus, or shot-put...
...September, as much for self-preservation as anything else. Yang gave the little bit extra that put him over. Yang remeasured the crossbar. "Parry O'Brien was practicing the shot-put, and he called over, 'What was the height? About fifteen and a half?' When I told him 'Sixteen two,' he said, 'Wow! You were over that bar by six or seven inches...
Crimson supremacy in weight events was blemished only by Brown's second shot-put. Art Croasdale won that event and placed second behind Art Doten in the 35 lb. weight throw...
...track barriers that once seemed as formidable as the Great Wall of China are crumbling like castles in the sand. In a single season indoors, U.S. athletes have produced a 16-ft. pole vault, a 64-ft. shot-put, a sub-4-min. mile. Last week, as the trackmen started moving from indoor boards to outdoor cinders, Negro Sprinter Francis Joseph Budd, 22, prepared an assault on the sturdiest barrier of all: 9 sec. for the 100-yd. dash...
...shot-put was won by Rick DeLone at 51 ft., 7 in. Highly touted cadets Seay and Clements finished behind him. The discus was a Crimson sweep by John Bronstein (152 ft., 6 1/2 in.), Loren Clayman (146 ft., 8 in.) and Stan Doten...