Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senior weightman Dave Bernstein, who came from total obscurity as a freshman to place in the Hep weight indoors and the hammer outdoors, and senior Charlie Ajootian, who captured the NCAA title in the weight throw indoors, captured the other two Improvement Awards...
Sophomore Ed Nosal and senior captain Dick Benka, who combined to sweep the shot, hammer, and discus Saturday and helped provide a comfortable point cushion for Bill McCurdy's runners, split the weight awards as well. Benka, undefeated in the shot, and Hep, IC4A, and Greater Boston champion, received the Little Shot Put Award for the third consecutive year, while Nosal won the Carver weight award...
...Nosal and Frank Champi completed a Crimson sweep in the weight throws, as Nosal captured the hammer throw with 171 ft. 2 in. distance and Champi outthrew teammate Richie Szaro in the javelin with a heave of 228 ft. 11 in. Yale's Tom Neville, who placed second in the discus, was the only Bulldog to place in the weight events...
...discus is the only weight event in which Yale will be a threat. Its top man in the event, Tom Neville, has thrown the platter past the 170-foot mark this season, further than any Crimson thrower. Harvard captain Dick Benka, however, edged Neville for second place in the Heps with a throw of 169 ft. 1 in., barely a foot shy of Neville's best career throw...
...Benka, Charlie Ajootian, Ed Nosal, and Richard Szaro, the Crimson is expected to dominate the rest of the weight events, but Yale should have an effective counterpunch with its running superiority, especially in the dashes...