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...plot of land, and he met a bookie who would let him play the ponies at $2,000 a crack. But, he claimed, he "found out that it was a scam [a con game] and had the guy beat up. They broke one side of his rib cage. He had taken me for a bunch...
...most dramatic, and probably most serious, loss is at the high jump position. To paraphrase Erich Segal (a Briggs Cage regular in his day), what can you say about a 22-year old, record-breaking high jumper who graduates? Mel Embree broke every record in the book in his three years of jumping and only missed going to the Olympics when Jim Barrineau leaped 7 ft. 4 1/2 in. on his last attempt at the U.S. trials (Barrineau failed to place in Montreal...
Harvard had pulled close on the strength of Geoff Stiles' pole vaulting. Stiles was the only survivor of the first stage of ragged competition. In the second round, Stiles cleared 15-ft. 6-in. to tie the Briggs Cage record...
Harvard's Pete Fitzsimmons and Huskie John Flora both broke the cage record in the two-mile. The start of the race saw Harvard's Reed Eichner sprint to an early lead. After a few laps he faltered and it was a two-man duel between Fitzsimmons and Flora...
Former Crimson stars Dan Jiggetts and Mel Embree are gone from Briggs Cage but juniors Ed Ajootian and Dan Sullivan will fill their spots in the new facility. Adjootian won the 35-lb. weight with a heave of 59-ft. 9-in. and Sullivan soared 6-ft. 6-in. to win the high jump...