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...varsity cage record in the shot, held by Sarge Nichols for a year now, was bettered by Nichols last night with a toss of 52 ft., 3 1/2 ins. The Crimson's other winner was Jed Fitzgerald, who took a quick lead in the two-mile run and lengthened it all the way to the finish...
...mile, Mark Mullin of the Crimson set the tone for the meet by shattering the cage record by 2.1 seconds. Mullin paced the field for the first three-quarters and then lost the lead to B.U.'s Art Freeman, a challenger to Mullin for the past two years. The Crimson distance man sprinted back into the lead on the gun lap and beat Freeman by ten yards...
Mullin returned to the track an hour later and tied the varsity cage record in the 1000. He held the lead from the start, as Fred Howard, varsity captain, and Neal Quirk of B.U. battled for second place. Both Howard and teammate Gus Schumaker passed Quirk to complete the Crimson's sixth sweep of the meet...
...scorer for the varsity was triple winner Tom Blodgett, who missed in a try at the cage record in the pole vault. He won the vault with a jump of 13 feet and led a varsity sweep of the event. Blodgett, Marty Beckwith, and Alan Albright joined up for another Crimson sweep in the broad jump...
...victory for Blodgett was in the hurdles, in which he edged out Thomas and tied a cage record. Thomas shot out with the start first, but Blodgett pulled even and then dove across the finish line with a clear-cut win. His time of 5.2 tied Joel Landau's 1953 record...