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...standpoint of the orthodox: 1) instead of using the conventional running take-off from one foot, Jumper Dick Browning takes off from both feet; 2) instead of rolling over the bar on his side, he goes over in a backward somersault. To make matters worse, Browning is not a trackman at all, but a member of the Illinois tumbling squad...
...Cincinnati, meeting at the N.C.A.A. convention, the unofficial Ivy League finally made it official. Beginning in 1956, the Ivies-Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale-will meet one another in football on a round-robin basis for a regular conference championship. ¶ In Melbourne, Australian Trackman John Landy, whose 4:02.1 mile is the third fastest on record, set an Australian two-mile mark of 8:58.2. ¶ In Rio de Janeiro, Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakia's triple Olympic winner, running over a soggy track, missed his 10,000-meter world record (29:02.6) by less than...
Charlie Arena, Ted Johnson, and freshman Norm Bruck will be entered in the dash. Johnson, an outstanding performer in last spring's intramural meet, makes his first start as a varsity trackman. Dave Alpers and Bob Morrison, two promising freshman middle distance men, go into the 600, while injured Yardling captain Al Wills may be in the mile if he can cure his cold...
...trackman rated least likely to succeed at Helsinki was a stringy (5 ft. 10 in., 145 lb.), 29-year-old FBI agent named Horace Ashenfelter. As he stood with eleven rivals at the starting line in the Olympic Stadium, he was the only American to reach the finals of the Olympic steeplechase, a punishing 3,000-meter run around a 400-meter track studded with 3-ft. barriers and a barricaded water jump...
...effective at all three. His running has no pounding power, no blinding speed. But a trail of sprawling, frustrated tacklers attests to a swivel-hipped shiftiness, a ball-bearing glide that enable him to change pace or direction without losing stride. Judd Timm, the Princeton backfield coach, an ex-trackman at Illinois, describes Kazmaier's running style: "He runs 'light,' with a nice forward lean; if he wants to slow down to pick up a blocker, he just straightens...