Word: javelin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blodgett is perhaps the key man in the field events. Off his record, he should win the javelin and the pole vault. John deKiewiet is favored in the high jump over Al Leisenring, and any one of four men, including the varsity's Pat Liles and Bob Downs, could take the broad jump
...additional meet records fell in the field events. The Crimson's Tom Blodgett won the javelin with a toss of 190 ft., 10 in., and edged out teammate Skip Pescosolido and Cornell's John Murray with 13 ft., 7 1/4 in. in the pole vault...
Whatever the quality of Mithradates' armies, he himself was such a tough old warrior that, at the age of 68, he still could throw a javelin as well as any of his soldiers and produce from his numerous harem an annual crop of royal children. Defeat only seemed to stimulate his ambition, and in 64 B.C. he was planning to realize a stupendous fantasy-an invasion of Italy from the north, while the main Roman army hunted him in the east...
...javelin will be close. On paper, the Crimson should have three of the first four finishers in Blodgett, Skip Pescosolido, and Bert Kneeland. But Blodgett went from 184 feet., 1 in. against Army to 169 feet against Princeton, and the rest of the javelin throwers are equally unpredictable...
Princeton has some strong men in the field events. Stu White is a very good high jumper, and Don Catino is a possible winner in the javelin. But the varsity group that assistant coach Ed Stowell calls "the best collection of field event men I've seen at Harvard" should join the runners in a convincing victory...