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...points. Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace dominated the Crimson attack, taking first in the long jump and just missing the Harvard home field record in winning the triple jump. These two stellar feats netted him "Outstanding Player of the Yale-Harvard Meet," an award given annually to the most valuable trackman of either team...
Kleiger, who already holds both the indoor and outdoor Harvard pole vault marks, topped the old IC4A standard by 3 1/4 inches Kleiger was the only Harvard trackman to win an event at the IC4A championships held last Friday and Saturday in New Brunswick...
...same pattern has emerged in 1969. At the recent N.C.A.A. championships in Nashville, Tenn., an unknown 440-yd. runner named Curtis Mills streaked across the tape in 44.7 sec., .1 sec. under the two-year-old world mark. The first black trackman in the history of Texas A. & M., Mills whipped the Olympics' top two quarter-milers -Lee Evans and Larry James. Villanova's Marty Liquori, who finished dead last in the 1,500-meter finals in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, defeated World Record Holder Jim Ryun after nine tries in the mile...
Juniors Royce Shaw and Keith Colburn and Sophomore Tom Spengler all qualified in the 880-yard run, and today's race will probably be a question of which Crimson trackman will break the tape first. Shaw's qualifying time of 1:52.6 was the fastest...
...Mexico City, each in his own way demonstrated what the Olympic Games are all about. Oerter, the proud veteran, hurled the discus 212 ft. 6½ in., five feet farther than he had ever thrown it in his life. He set a Games record and became the first trackman ever to win his event in four successive Olympics. Beamon, the precocious newcomer, competing in his first Olympics, leaped 29 ft. 2½ in. on his very first try, to smash the world long-jump record by an improbable margin of almost...