Word: javelin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other varsity point producers were Sam Halaby and Dick Williams, second and third in the pole vault; Hank Abbott, third in the shot; Skip Pescosolido and Chris Angermeyer, second and third in the javelin; Art Cahn, second to John Slowik in the 880; Dyke Benjamin, third in the two-mile; and Neil Muncaster and deKiewiet, second and third in the discus
Skip Pescosolido won the javelin for the second time in two tries this season, while the rejuvenated high jumpers took 8 1/3 of a possible nine points, as John DeKiewiet and Bob Downs tied for first and Hal Keohane figured in a three-way tie for third...
Neil Muncaster won the discus with a toss of 143 feet, 5 1/4 inches, while John deKiewiet won the high jump at 6 feet, 1 inch. Skip Pescosolido won the javelin at 186 feet, 9 inches, while Sam Halaby surprised with a 12 foot, 6 inch tie for first in the pole vault...
Coach Bill McCurdy will be watching with interest the showing of his field men, especially Neil Muncaster in the discus and Skip Pescosolido in the javelin, but he will need outstanding performances from both as well as a miraculous renascense of the rapidly-fading high jumpers and broad jumpers to make a fight of it. This is too much to ask, especially against a team of Army's calibre...
...Delegates to the national American Athletic Union convention did away with a couple of bits of unnecessary nonsense. They banned the "Spanish style" javelin throw (in which the spear tosser twirls like a discus thrower and has little control over direction), and they decided that, by next August, Olympic Hurdler Lee Calhoun will be an amateur once more. Calhoun's professional transgression: he was married on TV's gift-happy Bride and Groom show...