Word: javelin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story in Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine reported that Champi looked forward to the day when he would leave organized sport behind and play sports like handball and squash. He said last night that he would continue to throw the javelin for the track team because it was an individual activity which didn't restrict him so much...
...Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who first achieved national fame in 1930 when she played on the Golden Cy-clones Championship Girls' Basketball team of the Employers' Casualty Insurance Company of Dallas. She moved into the international spotlight in 1932 by winning the javelin throw and 80-meter hurdles at the Olympics in Los Angeles. In 1947, she won 17 straight golf tiles before turning professional. The Associated Press voted Babe the greatest female athlete of the first half of the twentieth century and, also, named her the woman athlete of the year...
...most obvious failing of Crimson quarterbacking Saturday was the inability to put passes into the hands of receivers. This was also a problem against Holy Cross. Champi, who throws the javelin for the track team, has a strong arm and can be accurate, as his long pass to Pete Varney in the opening game demonstrated. But neither he nor Smith has been consistently accurate...
Frank Champi, a former Harvard record-holder in the Javelin, threw the spear 225 ft. 5 in. Friday for a fourth place finish. The present record-holder, sophomore Richie Szaro, did not participate in the meet...
...Nosal and Frank Champi completed a Crimson sweep in the weight throws, as Nosal captured the hammer throw with 171 ft. 2 in. distance and Champi outthrew teammate Richie Szaro in the javelin with a heave of 228 ft. 11 in. Yale's Tom Neville, who placed second in the discus, was the only Bulldog to place in the weight events...