Word: shotput
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...Into the shotput circle at Texas A. & M. University stepped Randy Matson, 20, cupping a 16-lb. steel ball in one huge hand as if it were an egg. Sucking in his breath, he tucked the ball behind his right ear, crouched low, and tapped the ground once, twice, three times with his left toe. Then, with a prodigious grunt that could be heard a full 100 yds. away, he hurled himself across the ring. The shot sailed through the air and bit into the dirt, 67 ft. 11¼ in. away. "That one felt pretty good," sighed Sophomore Matson...
Matson's goal is 70 feet, the shotput equivalent of the four-minute mile in 1954, and he's getting closer every...
Harvard Captain Art Croasdale, held of the shotput by an injured wrist, at a new Brown stadium record in the with a throw of 186 ft. 6% in. Choquette took the shot for the Crimson just the same with a 49 ft. 4 1/2 leave...
...cage record in the shotput should be broken tonight. Northeastern's Carl Vallin will probably put his name into the Harvard record books unless Art Croasdale comes up with the best put of his career. Minutes afterwards, Croasdale squares off with Northeastern's Bill Corsetti, the only other collegian in the Boston area who can break the 60-foot mark in the 35-pound weight throw...
Carter Lord hasn't set any records, but he pulled off an astonishing double against both Army and B.U. In both meets Lord won the shotput and the dash...