Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech after the banquet coach Jaakko Mikkola revealed that he plans to break in Geoff and Don Trimble in the weight and hammer next year. The graduation of John Thorndyke, Larry Ward, and Bob Forsyth this spring and Howie Reed next February will leave the Crimson weak in the hammer, which has been its strongest event this season...
Yale won its fifteenth straight dual track meet Saturday in New Haven when it crushed the Crimson varsity 111 to 29. Howie Reed's hammer throw of 159 feet 6 1/2 inches representing Harvard's only clear win in the fifty-third clash with the Blue...
...high jump; Jeff Tootell, who took thirds in the discus and shot; Harvey Thayer, who took a second in the 220 and a third in the quarter. Charlie Keith and John Holbrook, scored second and third place respectively in the javelin; John Thorndyke and Cogan, took seconds in the hammer and two mile respectively, and Jon Spivak and George Kumpel took thirds in the 100 and broad jump respectively...
...javelin, in which he has greatly improved recently. Both events would be close tomorrow as should be the discus in which Jack Kiggen joins Ravreby for the freshmen. Dan Tucker and Dick Rubin will be competing against their ex-teammates from Andover Joe Chadbourne and Jim Mason in the hammer. All four have been heaving the iron to between 140 and 150 feet...
Hope of gaining the anything near 60 points rests to a great extent on the Crimson weight men and javelin throwers. John Thorndyke, Howie Reed, and Larry Ward would have to sweep the hammer; Jeff Tootell and Don Trimble in the shot, and Tootell in the discus would have to wrest at least six points from Yale aces Jim Fuchs and Vic Frank; and Charlie Kelth and John Holbrook would have to win six or eight points in the javelin...