Word: shotputting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astrodome management, the synthetic sod means easy upkeep. When a section wears out, a new one can easily be laid in to replace it. Stanford University is now using AstroTurf for all its outdoor freshman track-and-field events, except shotput and discus, and finds that it drains so quickly that it can be used even in the rain. The Seattle school board, saddled with its dirt-covered Memorial Stadium in which half the games have been played in mud, has voted to spend $175,000 to cover it with artificial turf...
...Randy Matson Day" in College Station, Texas, last week, and Texas A. & M.'s best-known student was a little embarrassed by all the fuss. "I haven't felt so much pressure since the Olympics," he said. Whereupon he stepped into the shotput ring and, on his first try, heaved the 16-lb. metal ball 71 ft. 5½ in. - breaking his own world record by a fantastic...
...might have done even better if he hadn't spread himself so thin. Besides the shotput, Matson was asked to compete in the discus throw, an event he does not much like. It was probably not entirely accidental that he forgot to bring his discus with him to the meet; his wife discovered it lying on the floor of the family car and rushed it out to the field. Randy resignedly trudged over to the throwing ring, wound up and sailed the discus 213 ft. 9½ in. - 3 ft. 3½ in. farther than any American had ever...
Wilson led teammates Charlie Ajootian and Gene Mazel to a sweep in the weights, while Dick Benka captured the shotput with a 52'-2 1/4" toss...
Then there is the shotput. Texas A. & M.'s Randy Matson holds the outdoor world record with a heave of 70 ft. 7¼ in., but the best he has ever done indoors is 64 ft. 4¼ in. One reason, says Randy, is that the shots themselves are different: both weigh 16 lbs., but the outdoor shot is plain metal while the indoor shot is covered with plastic so that it won't ruin the wooden floors...