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Paced by the record-breaking performances of Aggrey Awori and Ed Meehan, the Crimson trackmen romped to a 69-40 victory over a weaker than expected Brown team in Briggs Cage Saturday. It was the fourth win in as many appearances for Coach Bill McCurdy's sophomore studded squad and marked their last appearance until after exams...
...mile for the first time. Against lackluster competition, over a slow grass track in the New Zealand town of Wanganui, he blazed through the mile in 3 min. 54.4 sec.-clipping a tenth of a second from Herb Elliott's 3∧-year-old world record. At first, trackmen dismissed Snell's performance (he ran the last quarter-mile in a withering 56.4 sec.) as a fluke. They soon learned better: within little more than a month, the New Zealander had cracked four more world marks -for the 800 meters, the 1,000 yds., and the half-mile...
...track barriers that once seemed as formidable as the Great Wall of China are crumbling like castles in the sand. In a single season indoors, U.S. athletes have produced a 16-ft. pole vault, a 64-ft. shot-put, a sub-4-min. mile. Last week, as the trackmen started moving from indoor boards to outdoor cinders, Negro Sprinter Francis Joseph Budd, 22, prepared an assault on the sturdiest barrier of all: 9 sec. for the 100-yd. dash...
TRACK and field stars traditionally take it easy the year after the Olympics. Not in 1961. New marks have been set at almost every meet as U.S. trackmen have raced through the spring, scrambling for a place on the team that takes off next month for a competitive tour of Europe and Russia. Tickets for the big trip will go to the top two men in each event at next week's A.A.U. championships in New York. There, and at the N.C.A.A. championships this week in Philadelphia, athletes from across the country promise to tear the record book...
...Crimson trackmen captured the first three places in the hammer throw, shot put, and the mile, and swept the broad jump as they topped Dartmouth and left Brown in the dust last Saturday. The score at the end of the day was Harvard 87 3/10, Dartmouth 56 1/10, and Brown...