Word: toomey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players and referees skate to the other end of the rink, Wright got up, skated in front of Durno and swung his stick hitting him on the side of the neck. Action was stopped for several minutes while Durno was examined. Later in the period, B.U. forward Dick Toomey tallied on a breakaway to even the score...
Harvard cushioned its lead at 12:31 on a full-length rush by junior defenseman Chris Gurry while shorthanded a man. Both teams began to tire as the Terriers closed the scoring at 16:59 with Toomey netting his second goal...
...slower than his best. His discus throw, 143 ft. 31 in., was "near what I wanted," but the pole vault almost proved a disaster. "I just about had a heart attack when I missed the opening height on my first two attempts," said Toomey. He pulled himself together to vault 13 ft. 91 in., tying his personal record. A 206-ft. i-in. javelin throw kept him in first place, a bare 61 points ahead of West Germany's Bendlin, who had moved into second with a monumental heave...
...gold medal was riding on the last event, the 1,500 meter run. If he could beat Toomey by 10 sec. or so, Bendlin could still win. But he never came close. Gasping in the thin air, every muscle rubbery with fatigue, Toomey led all but a few strides of the way and drove to victory by 30 yds. Final score for the ten events: Toomey 8,193; Bendlin 8,064-a total that dropped the West German to third, behind his countryman Hans-Joachim Walde, who had also run a faster 1,500. "That was the worst competition...
...ever recorded for the metric mile. The thin air may have been a boon to Oregon's Dick Fosbury, whose unorthodox, over-the-bar-backwards, high-jumping style propelled him to an Olympic record height of 7 ft. 41 in. It certainly did nothing to slow down Bill Toomey, whose speed afoot was the major factor in his decathlon victory...