Word: discusion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the University track team, winning third in the shot put, fourth in the javelin, and fifth in the discus, was collecting six points for eleventh place in the forty-seventh annual intercollegiate meet Saturday, the California athletes gathered a total of 39 1-2 points, only three of which were won on the track, thereby taking for the third consecutive year the title from all the eastern competitors. Princeton, with 33 points, was second best, while the Yale team, which won ten points less than the Tigers, took third place from Pennsylvania by a half-point margin. Following Pennsylvania...
...feet 1-2 inch. Although falling short of the distance which he reached in the dual meet a week ago Saturday, Hills of Princeton, hurling the iron ball 47 feet 8 3-4 inches, carried off first place. Carpenter, the only other University point winner, placed fifth in the discus event with a throw of 131 feet 9 inches, adding one foot to the College record which he established in the Princeton dual meet...
Neufeldt of California, with five points in the discus, four in the javelin, and two in the shot put, was the high individual scorer of the meet. Although he falled to better his 181 foot 6 1-2 inch-hammer throw of Friday, Tootell of Bowdoin, was one of the outstanding performers of the meet, as was Comins of Yale, who broad jumped 24 feet 4 inches. Woodring of Syracuse placing first in the 440-yard and second in the 220-yard runs, and Taylor of Princeton, winning the low hurdle race, and following Woodring across the line...
California, 15 of whose 17 qualifying positions were won in the field events, seems to be headed for a third consecutive victory. With three men competing in the broad jump, discus, shotput, and javelin, the westerners have a distinct advantage over their eastern rivals...
...inch hammer throw of Tootell of Bowdoin. This is more than ten feet better than the record established last year by Merchant of California. In the dashes Leconey of Lafayette was the outstanding performer, while among the field event men, Neufelt of California, who qualified in the discus, javelin, and shotput, was the most prominent contestant...