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Coach Priddy also has good defense men. when Burke cracked his collar bone defense man Bill Bliss joined Jack Donelan, a former New England All Scholastic from Maiden Catholic High, to patrol the Harvard defense zone. Under the temporary change Wykoff dropped back to form a second due with Greg Koillglan, another St. Mark...
Early last year Mel began equaling the fastest 100 yards ever run by Paddock (9.5). Then he squeezed out a mite more speed and equaled the world's record (9.4), first set by Frank Wykoff,‡ another old U.S.C. hero. Was it possible to pump more speed out of human legs? It was. At Fresno, Calif, this spring, Patton ran his unbelievable 9.3. His archrival, Lloyd La Beach, was only inches behind...
...evening in Manhattan's old Hippodrome twelve years ago, Ed ("Strangler") Lewis was trying to pin Lee Wykoff to the mat with some purely scientific holds. It was an honest wrestling match without any phony dramatics. It was also horribly dull to watch. At the end of two boring hours, the Hippodrome was nearly empty -and legitimate wrestling was dead...
...that fast." So said almost everybody in 1896 when Bernie Wefers first ran the ioo-yard dash in 9.4 seconds. Six more times he equaled the present world record, a generation before Frank Wykoff (1930) and Jesse Owens (1935). Watches were checked and verified. But the A.A.U. still called it im possible. Wefers had to be content with an official...
...Cromwell, an old track & fielder himself, has trained more world-record holders and Olympic winners than anyone else in the U. S. In 1912 he was famed for Hurdler Fred Kelly. After the War it was Charlie Paddock, fastest sprinter of his time; and more recently it was Frank Wykoff. Since 1928 he has been renowned for his record-breaking pole vaulters, most sensational of whom were the "Trojan Twins," Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows, who wound up their college careers last year by breaking the world record with identical vaults three times, once at the unheard of height...