Word: shotputting
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Geoff Tootell set a new Harvard record in the shotput with a heave of 50 feet, 8 inches. He placed second...
...fifth in the pole vault at 12 feet, 6 inches; Robert Forsyth finished third in the 35-pound weight throw with a 53 feet, 11 1/2 inch toss; and Howard Reed placed fourth with a heave of 51 feet 5 7/8 inches; Donald Trimble finished fifth in the shotput with a throw of 48 feet, 9 inches; David Carter jumped 22 feet, 6 inches to place third in the broad jump; and John Harrigan was tied for fifth place in the high jump with Roger Hillas of Dartmouth. Both cleared 6 feet...
...Felton '48 took time off from the Business School this weekend to break the New York 35 pound shotput record by over a foot. His 57 foot 9 1/2 inch heave, only 10 inches short of the world's record, helped the New York Athletic Club into fourth place Saturday afternoon in the senior New York Metropolitan track championships on Columbia's wind-swept South Field...
...took staying power and icy nerve, as well as muscle and precision. The first day, under dismal rain, he had sweated through the 100-meter dash, broad jump, shotput, high jump, and 400-meter run. He failed to place first in a single event that day (though he tied five men in the high jump), but he was never out of the running either; the young giant hovered just behind the flashier winners, steadily piling up points. Bob Mathias (rhymes with defy us) was in third place when he tumbled into bed that night...
Events on the program: 50-yard dash, 600, 1000, mile, two-mile, one-mile relay, two-mile relay, 45-yard high hurdles, broadjump, highjump, shotput, polevault, 36-pound weight throw...