Walt Murphy’s News and Results Service (wmurphy25@aol.com)
This Day in Track & Field–June 9
1928—Stanford, winner of the IC4A title two weeks earlier in Cambridge,MA, dominated the team scoring at the NCAA Championships, held at Chicago’s Soldier Field, beating runnerup Illinois by 41-1/4 points (72-30-3/4). It was the 2nd straight NCAA team title for coach Dink Templeton, a future Hall-of-Famer.
Stanford had 5 individual champions
440y-Senior Bud Spencer 47.7/Meet Record–had set a World Record of 47.0 for 400-meters the previous
month…1928 Olympic gold medalist-4×400
High Jump—Senior Bob King 6-4 ½ (1.945) 1928 Olympic gold medalist
Pole Vault—Junior Ward Edmonds 13-6 ½ (4.13) won again in 1929 (co-champion)
Shot Put—Sophomore Harlow Rothert 49-10 ¾ (15.205) won again in 1929&1930…1932 Olympic silver medalist
Discus—Sophomore Eric Krenz 149-2 (45.46?)/Meet Record…was 2nd in the Shot Put 48-6 ½ (14.795)
Rice sophomore Charles Bracey was a double winner, setting a Meet Record of 9.6y in the 100y and equaling the MR
of 20.9 in the 220y (straight). Finishing 2nd in both events was another sophomore, Ohio State’s George Simpson,
who would win both sprints the following year and a 2nd title in the 220y in 1930.
Finishing 3rd in the Shot Put was Washington senior Herman Brix, the 1927 Champion. Later known as Bruce Bennett,
he portrayed Tarzan in the movies.
As was the case in some of the other early editions of the NCAA Championships, many Eastern teams chose to end
their season at the IC4A Championships, which were considered just as important (if not more so) at the time
than the newcomer on the college scene.
NY Times Coverage: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/06/10/100990813.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
Results: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/1928.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_NCAA_Track_and_Field_Championships
1945—Just as Stanford had done in 1928, Navy followed up its IC4A win with a victory at the NCAA Championships, which were held in Marquette Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was the first time a school from the East had won the team title in the 24-year history of the meet.
Navy got wins from John Van Velzer in the 100 (10.1), Bill Kash in the 440y (49.8), and Robert Patton in the Javelin (191-1 [58.24?]).
Keeping with the family tradition, Michigan’s Ross and Robert Hume, the…
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