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This Day in Track & Field–June 12
1900—Walter Tewksbury ran 10.8 in Philadelphia to become the first American to break 11-seconds in the 100-meters. The Penn grad had won the 100y and 220y at the 1898 and 1899 IC4A Championships.
He went on to win five medals at the 1900 Olympics in Paris–gold in the 200 and 400-Hurdles, silver in the 60 and 100, and bronze in the 200-Meter Hurdles.
The longer hurdles race was contested quite differently than it is today—the hurdles were fashioned out of telegraph poles and there was a 16-foot water jump before the finish!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Tewksbury
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/79119
1926—Two current and future Olympic champions won titles at the 5th NCAA Championships in Chicago
USC’s Bud Houser, who had already won the first of his two Olympic titles in the event in 1924 (he would also win in 1928), won the Discus with a Meet Record throw of 148-11 (45.38). He is a member of the National Hall of Fame.
Another Meet Record was set by Kansas State Teachers’ John Kuck, who won the Shot Put with a toss of 50-3/4 (15.26). Kuck went on to win Olympic gold in 1928.
Results: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/1926.pdf
Olympic Video(Kuck): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRhV3W1L3XU
Kansas Hall of Fame (Kuck):
https://www.kshof.org/team/john-kuck
1943—Cal’s Hal Davis, who was kept from achieving possible Olympic glory because of World War II, won the 100y (10.0) and 220y (21.4) for the second year in a row at the NCAA Championships, which were held in Evanston, Illinois. Davis was a member of the charter class of the U.S. Hall of Fame in 1974
Results: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1943.pdf
1954—Oregon’s Bill Dellinger won the Mile in 4:13.8 at the NCAA Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dellinger would win the bronze medal in the 5000-Meters 10 years later at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, and was a long-time coach at Oregon.
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