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This Day in Monitor & Subject—March 15
1968–UTEP’s Bob Beamon set a World Indoor Document of 27-2 ¾ (8.30) within the Lengthy Bounce on the opening day of the 4th NCAA Indoor Championships in Detroit’s Cobo Enviornment (3-15,16). Not finished for the evening, he additionally gained the Triple Bounce (52-3 ½ [ 15.93+]).
Full recap tomorrow(3-16)
http://trojanforcestats.us/iNCAA-Meet-Outcomes/iNCAAresults1968.pdf
1969—Sophomore Karl Salb (66-8 ¼ [20.32]) led a Kansas sweep within the Shot Put to guide the Jayhawks to the workforce title on the 5thNCAA Indoor Championships in Detroit. Ending 2nd and third had been teammates Steve Wilhelm (61-0 [18.59] and Doug Knop (60-9 ½ [18.53]). They’d repeat the sweep the next yr. It was Salb’s 1st of his 3 wins within the occasion.
The meet featured a number of medalists from the earlier yr’s Olympics in Mexico Metropolis.
San Jose State’s Lee Evans and Villanova’s Larry James had gained gold and silver within the 400-Meters, however James had the higher hand right here within the 440y (47.3-47.6). It was the 2nd of three straight wins for James. Evans and James had been the slowest of the 8 qualifiers and had been relegated to the so-called “sluggish” part!
Kansas senior Jim Ryun, who gained the silver medal within the 1500-Meters, wanted a last-ditch lunge to edge Villanova’s Marty Liquori to win his third straight title within the mile, with each being timed in 4:02.6. It had been a terrific battle between the 2 future Corridor-of-Famers, with Liquori saying after the judges had picked Ryun because the winner, “I believed I had gained, as a result of my nostril was virtually down on the boards I used to be leaning a lot”. There was some controversy about Ryun’s participation within the Mile after he had dropped out of the 2-mile the earlier evening (see beneath).
Villanova’s Erv Corridor, the silver medalist within the 110m-Hurdles, gained the indoor model (60y) in 7-flat (7.0).
One other resident of “Pace Metropolis” (San Jose State), John Carlos, the bronze medalist within the 200-Meters, gained the 60y in 6-flat (6.0).
USC’s Bob Seagren, the gold medalist within the Pole Vault, misplaced right here on misses to Miami-Ohio’s Les Smith, with each clearing 16-6 (5.03).
Again to that 2-mile. Ryun, bothered by a sore knee and blisters sustained throughout his Mile warmth within the afternoon, had limped off the observe after 3 laps, prompting Villanova coach Jumbo Elliott to lodge an “trustworthy effort” protest, asking that Ryun be disqualified from the Mile last. The protest was denied, and Ryun apologized to Liquori for dropping out of the race. Stated Liquori, who completed sixth (8:54.4) within the race, “He stated that was all he may do. Above all, he stated he didn’t wish to lose a good friend”.
In Ryun’s absence the race was gained by USC’s Ole Oleson (8:45.2), who, together with Yale’s Frank Shorter (8:45.3), handed Villanova’s Dick Buerkle (8:45.3) proper earlier than they hit the end line.
(From Jim Dunaway’s protection in T&F Information)
http://trojanforcestats.us/iNCAA-Meet-Outcomes/iNCAAresults1969.pdf
https://vault.si.com/vault/1969/03/24/an-exhilarating-nip-of-liquori
1975—After a sluggish first ½-mile (2:08), Villanova’s Eamonn Coghlan (4:02.0) had no hassle overtaking UTEP’s Wilson Waigwa (4:03.5) to win the Mile on the ultimate day of the NCAA Indoor Championships in Detroit. third was BYU’s Paul Cummings(4:06.2).
With Craig Masback on the anchor leg (1:52.4), Princeton (7:35.0) edged Fordham (7:35.4) to win the 2-mile relay.
Arnold Grimes gained the Triple Bounce (3-14) with a Collegiate Document of 55-4 (16.865?) to assist UTEP (36) win the workforce title.
Different notable winners:
60y-Hasley Crawford (Jap Michigan) 6.0
440y-Mike Sands (Penn State) 48.5
600y-Stan Vinson (Jap Michigan) 1:10.2
880y-Mark Enyeart (Utah State) 1:52.4
1000y-Keith Francis (Boston Faculty) 2:08.4
2-Mile-Nick Rose (Western Kentucky
Excessive Bounce-Greg Pleasure (UTEP) 7-2 (2.18+)
Pole Vault-1.Earl Bell (Arkansas State) 17-2 (5.23+)
Outcomes: http://trojanforcestats.us/iNCAA-Meet-Outcomes/iNCAAresults1975.pdf
1980—Sophomore Suleiman Nyambui gained the Mile/2-Mile double (4:05.26/8:36.82) on the NCAA Indoor Championships for the 2ndyear in a row to assist UTEP win the workforce title for the fifth time within the final 7 years (UTEP-76, Villanova 42). He would go on to win the silver medal within the 10,000-Meters on the Moscow Olympics later within the yr.
Different notable winners/occasions:
60y-1.Curtis Dickey (Texas A&M)…3.Stanley Floyd (Auburn) 6.14
1000y-Don Paige (Villanova) 2:05.80
Excessive Bounce—Franklin Jacobs (FDU) 7-4 ¼ (2.24)
Lengthy Bounce—Carl Lewis (Houston) 26-4 ½ (8.04)
Shot Put—Michael Carter (SMU) 67-7 ½ (20.61)
http://trojanforcestats.us/iNCAA-Meet-Outcomes/iNCAAresults1980.pdf
1981–Willie Banks jumped 56-7 ¾ (17.26m) at UCLA to set the primary of his seven American Out of doors Data within the Triple Bounce. (He would set an American Indoor Document lower than every week later in Tokyo (3-21, 56-5 ¼ [17.20m])
1983–Lengthy-time prep aficionado Jim Spier, with the help of Mark Younger, the ladies’s coach at Yale, the host college, was liable for staging the ”Document Assault”, the primary post-season indoor highschool meet. The consequence was 3 Nationwide Data, with sophomore Cathy Schiro (Dover,NH), a future Olympic marathoner, breaking her personal marks with instances of 16:20.8 at 3-miles and 16:52.48 at 5,000-meters, and Columbia (NJ) working 4:04.36 to set a brand new customary within the women Dash Medley (Felicia Blake, Kim Duke, Quay Whitlock, Pam Riley-2:15.6).
1986—Arkansas (M/third straight) and Texas(W/1st) gained the workforce titles on the NCAA Indoor Championships in Oklahoma Metropolis, Oklahoma.
As reported yesterday, Pittsburgh’s Lee McRae gained the first of his 3 straight titles within the 55-Meter sprint on Friday (3-14) and set a World Document of 6-flat(6.00).
Different notable winners/occasions:
Males
Lengthy Bounce-Kenny Harrison (Kansas State) 26-9 ¼ (8.16/fifth within the Triple Bounce!)
Girls
55m-1.Gwen Torrence (Georgia) 6.62, 2.Michell Finn (Florida State) 6.72
The meet was marred by the belief that the required curb was not in place for the races on the oval, which means the observe was brief! That additionally meant that the 59.81 that Arkansas’ Roddie Haley ran to win the 500-meters couldn’t be accepted by the game’s statisticians as a World Document (Official World Indoor Data weren’t acknowledged by the IAAF till 1987, and the five hundred nonetheless isn’t a “Document” occasion).
Outcomes: http://trojanforcestats.us/iNCAA-Meet-Outcomes/iNCAAresults1986.pdf
1991–Followers in most nations most likely checked out it as “simply” one other World Document, however these of us who nonetheless imagine on this planet of ft and inches marveled at one other barrier being damaged as Ukraine’s nice Sergey Bubka, competing at a meet in San Sebastian, Spain, grew to become the primary man to clear 20-feet (6.10m), indoors or outdoor. It was the 2nd of 4 world data that Bubka would set throughout the 1991 indoor season.
Sports activities Illustrated Vault: http://tinyurl.com/Bubka20
