Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensation of the young indoor track season is a lanky, 17-year-old Boston University freshman named John Thomas. Unheralded and almost unnoticed as the more spectacular racing events swirled around the track, Thomas broke the world's indoor record for the high jump twice in the last three weeks. This week in the Millrose Games at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Thomas will pit his new 6 ft. 11¾ in. indoor record against Outdoor Champion Charlie Dumas, who holds the U.S. outdoor record...
Sophomore Bob Stack led off the mile relay for Yale in 49.7, which McCurdy called "a really outstanding indoor time." From that point on, the race was no longer in doubt, and Yale finished well ahead of the Crimson in 3:22.5. The Yale two-mile team, running without Tommy Carroll, possibly the best half-miler in the nation, and Ed Slowik, another gifted middle-distance man, still won its race in an excellent...
...meter freestyle, now holds every freestyle record from 200 meters to 1,650 yds. ¶ Boston University Freshman John Thomas, 17, watched tensely as the high-jump bar was set, missed his first two tries, then rolled cleanly across on his last chance, set a new world indoor record of 6 ft. 11¼ in. at the Massachusetts Knights of Columbus games in Boston. ¶ To encourage more college field-goal kicking, the N.C.A.A. rules committee widened the space between the goal posts 4 ft. 10 in. to 23 ft. 4 in., first goalpost width change in football history...
...home country, gave the enthusiastic crowd a thrill with one of his patented come-from-behind triumphs in the K. of C. Mile. He moved into the lead with two laps to go, after trailing the field most of the way, and romped home in the good indoor time...
...Indoor Record...