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Freshman track coach Ed Stowell explains that the first thing Harvard does when it gets a Midwestern shot and discus man is to start him throwing the 35-1b. weight and the hammer--almost exclusively Eastern events...
When Ed Nosal walked onto the field two days after he got here the routine was no different. "They handed me the thing so I started throwing it," he now says after smashing the freshman indoor weight record with a 57' 9" throw and going undefeated in both events. "As a matter of fact I still don't know how to throw the damned thing...
Whether he knows how or not, next year Nosal is expected to be a top Ivy contender in both the indoor weight and the outdoor hammer along with Charlie Ajootian, who placed fourth in the NCAA's, and Ron Wilson. In addition he will continue to throw the discus, which was his best event in high school, and the shot, where he broke Dick Benka's freshman record with a 51' 10" heave this spring...
Stowell hesitantly admits that after only a year in the event Nosal is "in my estimation the best freshman hammer thrower that we have ever had" and "for only having thrown the weight for a year, probably the best freshman 35-1b. weight thrower ever in this country...
Second top point getter on the team. Nosal tripled three times in the outdoor season. In the freshmen's narrow win over Princeton, he swept the discus and then settled down against Princeton's top weight men in the hammer and shot. After fouling twice in the hammer, he qualified on the last throw and went...