Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gary's Horace Mann High, he twice was named All-State quarterback, was the country's leading interscholastic football scorer (150 points) in 1936, was captain of the basketball team, pitched three no-hit, no-run games one spring, was State champion at the 100-yd. dash (9.9 sec.) and still holds the Indiana record (22.6 sec.) for the 200-yd. low hurdles...
Truman Ford gave the best exhibition of the meet, pole vaulting 11 ft., 6 in. to surpass the old record by two feet. MacKinnon with firsts in both hurdles and a first place tie with Pirnie in the 160 yd. dash was the high scorer of the meet, and broke the records in two of the events. Pirnie also broke the record in the broad jump, jumping...
...back who shone most brilliantly last week was Tom Harmon of Michigan. Against Iowa, Junior Harmon, a 9.9 sprinter and champion hurdler, scored every one of Michigan's 27 points: four touchdowns (including a 90-yd. dash after intercepting a forward pass) and three conversions- as magnificent a display of fancy field running, forward passing, blocking and place-kicking as has been seen on a college football field since the days of Red Grange. Michigan 27, Iowa...
...next summer. At White City Stadium 95 hand-picked track & field stars representing 16 nations competed in the British A. A. A.'s annual international track meet. Before 60,000 onlookers, the U. S. team of ten won eight of the 14 events, broke two British records (440-yd. hurdles and shot put), piled up 54 points-13 more than Great Britain, 29 more than Germany, 38 more than Italy...
...Fighter Joe Louis-is considered the best all-round track man in the U. S. Besides winning the Big Ten championship in the shot put, broad jump and discus three years in a row, he has cleared the high jump at 6 ft. 5 ¾ in., has run 100 yd. in 10.1 sec., 440 yd. in 55 sec. If he can brush up on the pole vault, javelin, high hurdles and the 1,500-meter run, he may be America's best bet for the 1940 Decathlon championship...