Word: weights
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Also participating for the Crimson will be Bill Crain in the three-mile run, Keith Chiappa in the 1000-yard run, and the weight men, paced by junior Art Croasdale. McCurdy may have some others go tonight after taking regular workouts this afternoon...
...field events, Art Croasdale threw the shot 53 ft., 1/4 in. Saturday, placing second among collegians, and heaved the 35 lb. weight an impressive 59 ft., 1 1/2 in. Jay Mahaney, who pole vaulted 13 ft., 6 in. against Army but didn't compete in either meet last week, is still somewhat of an unknown quantity...
...team's problems seem to be a lack of strength behind Croasdale in the weight events, and the mile relay team. The mile squad placed fourth in its heat in New York and did the same in Boston, finishing in an unofficial time of 3:28. But according to coach McCurdy, the team has only one problem, conditioning, and should show marked improvement this month...
...looked as though he would be in town for quite a while, and so Jimmy Hoffa, 50, decided to throw the old weight around. Working out with bar bells in a Chattanooga, Tenn., Y.M.C.A., he started with relatively short, painless sessions. That, explained Instructor Bill Floyd, was because the hardheaded teamster boss was going a little soft in the gut. Hoffa will need all the exercise he can get. He's in Chattanooga for a federal trial (his fifth) on jury-tampering charges stemming from his fourth court appearance, and it promises to be a lively one. His attorneys...
...Packers were one of the first major pro football teams to adopt isometrics, and some credit the exercises for their brilliant seasons in 1961 and 1962, after which other teams caught on-and caught up. "It's the greatest thing the world has ever seen," rhapsodizes Olympics Weight-Lifting Coach Bob Hoffman. "I am absolutely awestruck at the miracles it has wrought." A millionaire manufacturer of gym equipment, Hoffman claims that he was the first to make isometric exercising devices. He has seen about 50 competing firms climb on the bandwagon just within the past four years...