Word: javelin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson field men racked up 41 1/2 points for the afternoon, scoring in all eight field events, and winning four. Richie Szaro continued his astounding javelin performances, threw the spear 238 ft. 5 in. Saturday, shattering an 11-year-old Heps record. Bob Galliers got off the best long jump of his career, winning with a leap of 24 feet, one of the longest in recent years for Harvard...
...Saturday with a respectable 6 ft. 6 in. jump. Triple jumper Walter Johnson also came down from his last week's distance, but his 46 ft. 4 1/4 in. leap was good enough for third place. Frank Champi added two more points to the Crimson's total in the javelin, finishing fourth...
...weight events, Charlie Ajootian captured the hammer throw with a 179 ft. 8 in. heave, Dick Benka won his expected shot put victory (56 ft.). Frank Champi turned in a winning 210 ft. 6 in. javelin toss, and Bruce Hedendal outthrew all of his rivals in the discus...
Senior Dick Benka, who hasn't lost in a dual meet since his sophomore year, is a solid shot put favorite, and Richie Szaro could easily dominate the javelin throw. Szaro, the Harvard record-holder, outthrew teammates Frank Champi and Henry Bernson, both former record-holders, by 3 feet in the Greater Boston meet...
With the scoring based on a 6-4-3-2-1 basis, the javelin accounted for 13 of the Crimson's 34 points...