Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California squad strengthened its chances to repeat in the finals this afternoon by qualifying 12 men, two more than either Yale or California, who are intrenched in second position. Houser, the brilliant weight man and leader of the Trojans, more than lived up to expectations by shattering both the shot put and discus marks in his qualifying efforts. Stanford and Georgetown each placed nine athletes in the semi-final and final events scheduled to start at 3 o clock this afternoon, and Harvard trailed on their heels with eight men qualified in the 13 events of the afternoon. The preliminaries...
...extra base clouting of the team, up to now not very impressive, shot up in the games against Princeton and Williams. Burns opened the disastrous Tiger game with his first home run of the season, and later connected for a safe double, also his first. Chase, Sullivan, and Todd also rapped out a two-bagger apiece, all of them coming in the Williams game, lost after a game uphill fight. By virtue of his hit in the game against the Purple, Sullivan, the Crimson short fielder, moved into a tie with Barbee for the most doubles. The Harvard total...
Another factor to consider is that competition really is a detriment to a good shot putter. In some events the athlete can do better work when the competition is keen. In running events it is an asset to be keyed up, but that does not apply to the shot put. Look back over the records and you will find that the best marks have been made when the mental strain was lacking. It does not necessarily follow that a man is a poor competitor when he fails to make his best mark in the Intercollegiate competition. The same strain which...
Interest in shot putting among collegians is traceable, I believe, to the desire for football men to take up weight events for off-season training. It is natural that they should turn to weights and yet it is a difficult task for the big man to perfect timing and rhythm, which are all-important to the shot putter. The increase in public interest in the event is not difficult to explain. This week's competitors will toss the sixteen-pound ball from a spot within the view of thousands in the Stadium. It will require only a glance to show...
...Houser breaks the record this year it will be the first time in nearly 40 years that the record will have been broken three successive years, and probably will mark the first time in any meet that 49 has been broken by the shot-put winner for that many years. HOW SHOT PUT RECORD HAS CLIMBED UPWARDS IN 50 YEARS ft. in. 1876--Mann, Princeton 30 11 1-2 1877--Larkin, Princeton 33 1879--Larkin, Princeton 33 8 1-2 1880--Moore, Stevens 35 1 1-4 1882--Moore, Columbia 36 3 1884--Reckhart, Columbia...