Word: shotput
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCurdy plans to use Hughes and sophomore Kevin McCafferty in the lineup for shotput. "This combination ought to give us a pretty good one-two punch against any of our opponents," he said...
Other standouts for Harvard were Jay Hughes, who won the hammer throw and the shotput, and Richard Durrett, who led a Harvard sweep of the two-mile...
...Hughes will be returning to the shotput, and will be backed up by Heptagonal scorer Kevin McCafferty...
...members to ham it up: "Wave during introductions, smile, turn to all sides of the arena and acknowledge the applause. Many U.S. athletes act glum as if they are about to be shot in the next minute." Matson, the world record holder (71 ft. 5½ in.) in the shotput, but a rather colorless performer, recognizes the problem. "If everyone was like me," he says, "nobody would come out and watch...
...shotput, another powerful American will be missing, but not by choice. Randy Matson, gold medalist in 1968, was nudged off the U.S. team by George Woods, Al Feuerbach and Brian Oldfield. Feuerbach, who has hair like Samson's and a mustache like Fu Manchu's, releases the shot with a banzai-type yell. Oldfield competed at the U.S. trials in a brief, floral-patterned swimsuit and a low-cut fishnet jersey. If these Americans fail to stir the Munich stadium crowds, West German Uwe Beyer almost certainly will. After winning the bronze medal in the hammer throw...