Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delivery. The son of a Phoenix College math and sociology teacher, Long began putting the shot in grammar school, started to show real promise at North Phoenix High School under Track Coach Vernon Wolfe, onetime University of Southern California pole vaulter. Wolfe put him to work lifting weights, had him study movies of O'Brien ("You might say he was a sort of hero of mine then." says Dallas). Slowly he mastered O'Brien's 180° body-spin delivery. Despite the fact that he was picked as an all-state tackle, Long gave up football...
...hulking teen-ager stood by the shotput ring in his track suit, the muscles in his 17½-in. neck bulging, his 50-in. chest heaving in easy rhythm. Dallas Crutcher Long III spoke almost casually of distances never before achieved with the 16-lb. shot. "I should hit at least 66 feet by the end of the year." he said...
...months ago heaved it a prodigious 63 ft. 4 in. in a freshman meet. The field sloped too much to qualify the toss for a world mark, but it brought Parry O'Brien himself hustling down from the stands. He rushed to the dressing room, put on a track suit, and registered 63 ft. 6¾in. Said O'Brien: "I just hope I can fight him off for another year or two, but it's going to take some doing." Just a month later, in Santa Barbara, Long officially matched O'Brien's world...
...Three Kentucky Derby favorites-First Landing, Atoll and Intentionally-broke fast and stayed in front for most of the running of the $88,100 Wood Memorial at New York's Jamaica race track. But the pace was too fast, and a 64-to-1 long shot named Manassa Mauler charged through on the inside, won by three-quarters of a length to take $55,915 first money...
Setting four meet records in the process, the varsity track team crushed Princeton, 99 to 41, Saturday in the Stadium. The Crimson took 12 firsts, six of them in the field events, as it registered its second straight victory of the spring...