Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, on the dark side, the team will sorely miss captain Pete Reider, the backbone of the squad for the past three years in the distances. However, John DuMoulin, the team's top weight thrower will probably be the toughest to replace for the Crimson, as freshman Jed Fitzgerald, who capped his season with a 4:17.5 mile against Dartmouth will come close to offsetting the loss of Reider...
...weights, McCurdy has Doty and Duno Johnson, a sophomore who came along at the end of the season. He will also have Stan Doten, a broth of a weight thrower, up from the Yardlings. However, whether or not any of them can fill DuMoulin's shoes is crucial for the success of the Crimson...
Almost as soon as they landed in New York, the seven visiting Soviet strongmen began to wonder whether weight lifting in the U.S. is a sport or a sideshow. Dutifully they drank Cokes and made muscles for Manhattan photographers: dutifully they helped hoist "Miss Body Beautiful" aloft for enterprising Chicago newsmen. Light-Heavyweight Trofim Lomakin let one publicity man con him into posing on horseback until a comrade muttered: "Cossack!" Bantamweight Vladimir Stogov, an army chauffeur, took a turn behind the wheel of a new Ford, fled in terror when he pushed a button and the retractable hardtop began...
Strictly speaking, weight lifting is not a team sport. Each lifter must compete in three different styles of lifting,* with nothing but his own explosive energy to help him get the hefty bar bells aloft. But somehow, after their sad start, the U.S. strongmen developed a muscular team morale...
...press, in which the feet are slightly spread and never shifted, and the weight is lifted in two smooth movements: from floor to chest, then to arms' length overhead. The snatch, in which the weight is lifted from floor to the over head position in one explosive movement. The clean-and-jerk. in which the weight is hoisted neck-high while the lifter drops into a squat or split, then "jerked" aloft as the legs are straightened...