Walt Murphy’s Information and Outcomes Service (wmurphy25@aol.com)
This Day in Observe & Area–April 30
1921—Ending in a 4-way tie for first place within the Excessive Soar on the Penn Relays was Illinois’ Harold Osborn, who additionally gained the Triple Soar (46-9 ½ [14.26]). He would win Olympic gold within the Excessive Soar and the Decathlon in Paris in 1924.
Earl Eby, the silver medalist within the 800-meters on the 1920 Olympics, anchored Penn to its 2nd-straight win within the Dash Medley(3:31.8).
Penn’s George Bronder set a Relays File of 183-1/4 (55.79+) within the Javelin. He gained 6 consecutive U.S. titles from 1914-1919.
For Subscribers: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/05/01/98679617.html?pageNumber=102
Outcomes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Osborn
1927—M.I.T.’s Henry Steinbrenner, whose son George (a hurdler at Williams School) would turn out to be the proprietor of the New York Yankees, gained the 120y-Hurdles on the Penn Relays in 15.4.
The Steinbrenner Household Heritage Award was established in 2001 to acknowledge multi-generational households for his or her help and dedication to the Penn Relays.
For Subscribers: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/05/01/96644411.html?pageNumber=137
Outcomes
1932—Fordham’s Joe McCluskey set an American File of 9:28.6 within the Steeplechase on the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. It was the 2nd of McCluskey’s three wins within the occasion at Penn (1931-1933). He would decrease the mark to 9:14.5 in July.
A 9-time U.S. Champion within the steeple, McCluskey gained the bronze medal on the 1932 Olympics (after being compelled to run an additional lap when officers misjudged the end), and remained energetic in Masters competitors (in lots of occasions) till the age of 85. (I used to look at him working towards for the lengthy leap at my native monitor in Forest Park-Queens!). He was elected to the Nationwide Corridor of Fame in 1996.
Manhattan School gained for the primary time at Penn, setting an American report of 10:14.0 within the Distance Medley with a lineup of Invoice McGeogh (50.6), Joe Burns (1:54.4), Jackie Ryan (3:09.8), and Frank Crowley (4:19.2).
Invoice Carr’s 48.2 anchor cut up helped Penn smash the earlier Relays File of three:18.0 within the Mile Relay, a report set by one other Penn squad 17 years earlier, with its profitable time of three:15.4. Carr had run the lead-off leg on Penn’s profitable staff in 1931. He would win the gold medal within the 400-meters (and set a World File of 46.2) on the L.A. Olympics later within the yr. He was named to the Nationwide Corridor of Fame in 2008.
Penn’s George Munger gained the Decathlon (7324.599) and went on to have a Corridor-of-Fame profession as Penn’s soccer coach. The annual School Soccer Coach of the Yr Award bears Munger’s identify.
For Subscribers: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/04/30/100726376.html
Outcomes
McCluskey
Corridor of Fame Bio(1996): https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/joe-mccluskey
Wiki Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_McCluskey
NY Occasions Obituary(2002): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/sports activities/joe-mccluskey-91-track-medalist-dies.html
HOF Bio-Carr(2008): https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/bill-carr
Munger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Munger_(American_football)
1938—Led by the Rideout twins, Wayne and Blaine, North Texas State grew to become the primary staff to interrupt 10-minutes within the Distance Medley (9:59.4) on the Penn Relays.
Pittsburgh’s John Woodruff, the 1936 Olympic Champion at 800-meters, confirmed his versatility by anchoring the Panthers to wins within the 880y (1:26.6/=Relays File), Mile (3:17.8), and Dash Medley (3:24.5/RR) Relays.
Columbia’s Ben Johnson led the Lions to a win within the 440-Relay (41.7) and gained the 100-yard sprint (9.8).
Virginia State’s John Borican gained the 400m-Hurdles (1 flip) in 53.6. The versatile Borican gained U.S. titles within the 800-meters AND the Decathlon(!) and was inducted into the Nationwide Corridor-of-Fame in 2000.
Ohio State’s Dave Albritton, the silver medalist on the 1936 Olympics, gained his 2nd title within the Excessive Soar (additionally gained in 1936).
For Subscribers: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/05/01/99541361.html?pageNumber=73
Outcomes
Borican: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/john-borican
Woodruff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woodruff_(athlete)
Albritton: http://oldserver.usatf.org/HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=4
Rideouts: https://www.chroniclingillinois.org/gadgets/present/29455
1949–-Led by the Ashenfelter brothers (Invoice, Don, and Horace), Penn State gained the 4-mile relay (17:35.4) for the Third yr in a row on the Penn Relays.
Detroit’s Wayne State swept the 440y (41.7) and 880y (1:26.0) relays. NYU was additionally a double champion, profitable the Mile Relay (3:15.6) and the Dash Medley(3:24.9).
http://www.runningpast.com/horace_ashenfelter.htm
http://www.garycohenrunning.com/Interviews/Ashenfelter.aspx
For Subscribers: NY Occasions Protection
1955–Villanova, whose males’s staff has now gained a report complete of 97 Championship Relays at Penn (by 2025), gained its first two, taking the Dash Medley and Mile Relay (3:17.6). Within the latter race, soph Charlie Jenkins, who additionally anchored the SMR, introduced the Wildcats from 4th to 1st together with his 46.5 anchor. (Villanova ladies have gained 43 titles at Penn)
The Villanova males would win a minimum of one Championship Relay for 28 consecutive years (1955-1982).
Manhattan gained the 880y (1:26.6) and 4-Mile (17:41.2) Relays and, with Shot Putter Ken Bantum working the 2nd leg, the Shuttle Hurdles (60.7). Bantum would win the SP at Penn in 1956 and 1957.
The winner of the Shot Put this yr was Penn State’s Roosevelt “Rosey” Grier, who went on to NFL fame as a member of NY Giants and the Los Angeles Rams’ “Fearsome Foursome”.
From his Wiki Bio: “…he labored as a bodyguard for Senator Robert Kennedy throughout the 1968 presidential marketing campaign. Grier was guarding Ethel Kennedy when Senator Kennedy was shot. Though unable to forestall the assassination, Grier took management of the gun and subdued the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan.”
For Subscribers: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/05/01/92633534.html?pageNumber=234
Outcomes
Grier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosey_Grier
1960—Boston College sophomore John Thomas, already the Indoor World File holder within the Excessive Soar (7-2 ½ [2.197]) took maintain of the Out of doors mark when he cleared 7-1 ½ (ratified at 2.17) on the Penn Relays.
In Olympic Growth races, Ray Norton gained the 100 (10.5) and 200 (20.6/=World File), with Dave Sime ending 2nd in each races (Bobby Morrow, the 1956 Olympic Champion in each sprints, completed Third within the 100, 4th within the 200); Previous and future Olympic champions met within the 110-meter hurdles, with Hayes Jones (13.6) beating Lee Calhoun, who went on to win his 2nd Olympic gold medal on the Rome Olympics later within the yr. Jones gained bronze in Rome and gold 4 years later in Tokyo; Tom Murphy gained the 800m for his 2nd 2-lap win in a row (1:51.4/gained the 880y in 1959).
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an honest runner in his youth, anchored Brooklyn’s James Madison Excessive College’s distance medley relay!
For Subscribers: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/05/01/99946630.html?pageNumber=261
Outcomes
Sports activities Illustrated Vault: https://vault.si.com/vault/1960/05/09/the-fastest-of-the-fastest
1966—Maryland’s Frank Costello, the 1965 NCAA Indoor and Out of doors Champion, gained the Excessive Soar (6-9 [2.06]) on the Penn Relays for the 2nd yr in a row. He was the top coach at his alma mater from 1975-1980.
Three of the best preps to return out of the Northeast within the Nineteen Sixties connected on the anchor leg of the Excessive College Distance Medley(4-29).
Junior Marty Liquori (Essex Catholic,NJ) had an honest lead when he obtained the baton, however senior Artwork Dulong (Randolph,MA) and junior Jim Jackson (Boys Excessive-Brooklyn,NY) had been proper on his heels with a lap to go.
Simply as Dulong (4:14.3) was attempting to move Liquori (4:20.2), Jackson (4:14.4) bolted into the lead and pulled away from his two challengers on the backstretch, bringing his staff house in first place with a time of 10:09.8 and breaking the earlier Relays File by a whopping 14-seconds. Liquori held on to present Essex Catholic 2nd place in 10:12.4, with Dulong, bringing in Randolph shut behind in 10:13.2, as each groups had been additionally effectively beneath the previous File of 10:23.8.
Jackson was one of many prime prep ½-milers within the U.S. in 1966 & 1967, Dulong ran 4:04.5 for the Mile in 1966 (and 9:00.8 for 2-miles in 1965), and Liquori grew to become the Third prep to interrupt 4-minutes for the mile when he ran 3:59.8 in 1967
For Subscribers: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/04/30/83530449.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
Outcomes
1977–Arizona State topped off an awesome day of racing by setting a Penn Relays (and Collegiate) File of three:01.9 within the 4×400 relay. The Relays File stood for 33 years till Florida ran 3:01.10 in 2010. The Solar Devils ran with a lineup of Clifton McKenzie (46.2), Gerald Burl (45.2), and Philadelphia-area natives Tony Darden (45.2) and Herman Frazier (45.3).
Burl, Darden, and Frazier had earlier run on the 4×100 staff that gained in 39.57 and the 4×200 squad that set a World File of 1:21.4. They had been joined within the 4×100 by Steven Williams (not THE Steve Williams) and within the 4×200 by Gary Burl, Gerald’s brother. (The 4×200 mark fell in need of the Collegiate File of 1:20.7, which was set at 880-yards by USC’s mixed-nation staff in 1972).
Stated long-time (and profitable) Arizona State coach Baldy Castillo, “That is the best thrill I’ve had in teaching”.
The Solar Devils misplaced a 4th title when their “profitable” Shuttle Hurdles staff was disqualified when officers dominated that anchorman Gary Burl had left too early.
Mark Belger gained three of his eventual report complete of 10 Relays watches as Villanova matched Arizona State’s 3 wins by ending first within the 4×800 (7:16.3), Dash Medley (3:15.3), and Distance Medley (9:28.5). Belger ran 800 splits of 1:47.6 and 1:46.2 and his 1200 cut up of two:50.1 was the quickest ever run at Penn on the time.
Belger and Frazier, who had gained Olympic bronze (400) and gold (4×400) in Montreal the earlier yr, shared billing because the Relays’ Excellent Performer.
Totally Automated timing made its debut at this yr’s Relays.
NY Occasions Protection Outcomes
H.S. Protection
1977–Unheralded Randy Wilson (1:46.1), a junior at Oklahoma (and an Iowa native), upset veterans Mike Boit (1:46.1) and Rick Wohlhuter (1:46.2) to win the 800-meters on the Drake Relays. He additionally anchored the Sooners to a win within the Dash Medley (3:18.3). Wilson was chosen because the meet’s Excellent Performer for his efforts.
One other upset occurred within the Males’s 100-meters, which had been billed as a matchup between Texas’ Johnny “Lam” Jones and Auburn’s Harvey Look. The winner was Florida State hurdler Mike Roberson, who ran 10.53 into a powerful headwind (-5.8). Jones (10.58) edged Look (10.61) to complete 2nd.
On the ladies’s facet, Peg Neppel set an American report of 15:52.27 within the 5000-meters.
This was the ultimate yr of imperial distances at Drake, which might go totally metric in 1978.
Sports activities Illustrated Vault:
https://vault.si.com/vault/1977/05/09/a-new-generation-of-blues-fans
1983—Carl Lewis set a Penn Relays File of 10.09 within the Olympic Growth 100-meters. Ending 4th was Steve Riddick, an eventual 6-time winner of the occasion (1977-1980, 1982, 1984). Lewis now shares the Occasion File with the Netherlands’ Churandy Martina (2007).
Villanova’s wonderful 28-year streak of profitable a minimum of one Championship Relay at Penn got here to an finish (see 1955). The Wildcats had been 2nd to Arkansas within the 4×1500 (15:15.73-15:18.42) and the Dash Medley (3:15.22-3:15.98), with Stanley Redwine (1:46.0) getting the higher of John Marshall (1:47.8) on the anchor leg.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/01/sports activities/villanova-s-reign-ended-by-arkansas.html?searchResultPosition=3
Outcomes
1988—The ladies stole the present at this yr’s Penn Relays, with Texas (3:41.96) and Villanova (10:48.38) setting “World Information” within the Dash (4-29) and Distance (4-28) medleys, respectively.
Texas-Barbara Flowers (52.9), Mary Bolden, Carlette Guidry, Karol Davidson (2:02.8).
Villanova-Kathy Franey (3:20.9), Michelle Bennett (52.8), Celeste Halliday (2:04.7), Vicki Huber (4:29.9)
Simply as their male counterparts had carried out in 1977, Arizona State’s ladies swept the three dash relays—4×100 (44.46), 4×200 (1:33.03-Collegiate File), 4×400 (3:31.60).
Arkansas’ Joe Falcon (3:38.9) outdueled Georgetown’s Mike Stahr (3:39.8) on the anchor leg to present the Razorbacks the win within the 4×1500 on the Penn Relays (14:57.87-14:58.61). Ending a detailed Third in 14:49.56 was Indiana, as all 3 groups broke into the all-time top-10 checklist at Penn. (The occasion changed the 4xmile relay from 1976-1997).
Falcon additionally anchored Arkansas to a win the day before today’s Distance Medley (9:29.4), whereas Stahr completed off Georgetown’s win within the 4×800 (7:21.60).
NY Occasions Protection
Outcomes
2004—Stanford’s Alicia Craig ran 32:19.97 for 10,000-Meters on the Cardinal Inv. at Stanford, breaking the Collegiate File of 32:22.97 that was set by Villanova’s Carole Zajac in 1992.
2005—It couldn’t have been any sweeter for the College of Michigan and coach Ron Warhurst. The Wolverines had taken a number of grief in Fayetteville on the NCAA Indoor Championships after their protest resulted within the disqualification of host staff Arkansas’ Distance Medley when officers agreed that the Razorbacks’ Stated Ahmed had interfered with Michigan’s Nate Brannen proper on the end of the race.
With a number of satisfaction on the road, the 2 groups connected within the 3 longest males’s relays of the weekend, and Michigan beat Arkansas in all three-the Distance Medley on Friday, and the 4xmile and 4×800 on Saturday. So as to add icing on the cake, in addition they broke Arkansas’ Collegiate File within the 4xMile with their profitable time of 16:04.54, and their 3 wins moved them forward of Arkansas on Penn’s All-Time Males’s Championships checklist
(on the time)
1.Villanova 88
2.Penn 54-1/2
3.Michigan 42
4.Arkansas 41
NY Occasions Protection
Outcomes
2006–Alan Webb, making his debut on the distance, gained the ten,000-meters at Stanford in 27:34.72. Dathan Ritzenhein, who had shared pacing duties with Webb all through the final half of the race, completed 2nd with a private greatest time of 27:35.65.
“(Ritzenhein)…revealed that he had been bearing an emotional burden all through the competitors, as he discovered shortly earlier than touring to California {that a} shut boyhood good friend had died in Iraq on Thursday after struggling greater than 5 months in a hospital after a roadside assault late final yr in Baghdad. “Matthew Weber was one in every of my closest pals,” famous Ritzenhein, gazing downward on the monitor. “I simply saved considering ‘Matt, Matt, Matt’ throughout these ultimate laps. It was the most effective factor I may do in his reminiscence, to run a superb race.”
IAAF Report: https://www.worldathletics.org/information/information/webb-debuts-with-273472-victory-at-stanford
2016— With senior Tommy Awad (4:00.3) coming from 4th to 1st on the final lap, host Penn gained the 4-mile relay (16:26.30) on the Penn Relays, its first win within the occasion since 1950, and its first total win on the Relays since they gained the Shuttle Hurdles in 1974. Previous Awad had been Keaton Naff (4:08.0), Chris Hatler (4:06.7), and Nick Tuck (4:11.3).
Awad (4:01.5) had anchored Penn to a Third-place end in Friday’s Distance Medley (4-29), with their time of 9:37.25 breaking a 44-year old skool report. Available to congratulate the staff, all working as officers, had been 3 members of the staff that set the earlier report of 9:42.2 on the 1972 Relays-Julio Piazza, Karl Thornton, and Elton (Denis) Fikes.
Stated Penn coach Steve Dolan after the 4-mile win, “Nicely it’s an actual honor. I couldn’t be extra pleased with these guys.
They’ve labored so exhausting and we’ve talked about it for years, however to be in a Penn uniform and to win on this stage on the Penn Relays is about pretty much as good because it will get. It was a magical second on the market for all of us and I couldn’t be extra enthusiastic about what they’ve carried out and the way they competed as we speak.
Sanya Richards-Ross (52.6) competed on the Relays for the ultimate time, anchoring the U.S. to a win within the 4×400 relay. It was the seventh time she had run on a profitable 4×400 within the USA vs the World sequence. She additionally anchored Texas to a win (and a Meet File of three:27.64) within the School Girls’s 4×400 in 2003.
“That is my final season competing, and it’s been nice to replicate on how blessed I’ve been. My teammates gave me a tremendous lead and it felt virtually like I used to be working a victory lap. It’s a bit bit emotional, and I wished to soak up the second warming up. It’s been a blessing to compete with my teammates and to be part of staff USA.”
Conscious of the importance of the second, the native of Jamaica obtained a heat reception from American and Jamaican followers alike.
4-Mile Relay: http://pennrelaysonline.com/Historical past/outcomes.aspx?en=459&cy=2016
Outcomes: http://pennrelaysonline.com/Historical past/schedule.aspx?cy=2016
2022—After a 2-year hiatus as a result of Covid, the Penn Relays returned in wonderful model beneath the management of the brand new Director-Steve Dolan, the top coach at Penn. Dolan took over from the retired Dave Johnson.
The Girls’s 4×1500 was a traditional, with Arkansas (16:53.87) and NC State (16:55.19) each working effectively under the earlier Collegiate File of 17:08.34 that was set by Tennessee on the 2009 Relays.
NC State had an honest lead by the primary two legs, however the placings had been reversed after Lauren Gregory put Arkansas into the lead together with her 4:12.5 cut up on the Third leg. Katelyn Tuohy put the Wolfpack again in entrance with 2 laps to go on the anchor leg, however Krissy Gear glided by Tuohy on the ultimate backstretch and maintained her lead by the end line to present the Razorbacks the historic win. The splits by Tuohy (4:09.8/#3) and Gear (4:10.7/#6) had been among the many quickest ever run at Penn.
Full lineups
Arkansas (Isabel Van Camp 4:16.8, Logan Jolly 4:13.9, Lauren Gregory 4:12.5, Krissy Gear 4:10.7);
NC State (Anna Vess 4:17.4, Samantha Bush 4:10.9, Savannah Shaw 4:17.1, Katelyn Tuohy 4:09.8);
Spain’s Mario Garcia Romo’ anchored Ole Miss to wins within the Males’s 4×800 (7:13.71) and Distance Medley (9:29.45) Relays.
Athing Mu gained the Invitational 600 in 1:22.74, the 4th quickest time in historical past. American File holder Ajee’ Wilson completed sixth in 1:25.87.
Windy circumstances prevented Gary Martin (Wooden,PA) type reaching his aim of turning into the first prep to interrupt 4-minutes for the Mile at Penn, however he nonetheless managed to set a Relays File of 4:01.04.
Outcomes: https://pennrelaysonline.com/Historical past/schedule.aspx?cy=2022
FloTrack’s Stylized Have a look at the 4×1500: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtUSeC1ejQ0
Movies: https://www.flotrack.org/occasions/7138044-2022-penn-relays-presented-by-toyota
https://pa.milesplit.com/meets/445494-the-penn-relays-carnival-2022/protection
https://www.dyestat.com/gprofile.php?do=view_event&event_id=633&mgroup_id=44531&yr=2022
2022—18-year previous Erriyon Knighton, a senior at Hillsborough H.S. in Tampa, Florida, ran 19.49 for 200-meters in Baton Rouge,LA, smashing his earlier World and American Junior/Beneath-20 File of 19.84
Born On This Day*
JuVaughn Harrison 26 (1999) 6-time NCAA Champion whereas at LSU…gained the Excessive Soar and Lengthy Soar on the 2019
NCAA Championships, and once more on the 2021 NCAA Indoor & Out of doors Championships
Successful distance on the 2021 NCAA Indoor meet was 27-8 ¾ (8.45/=#9 All-Time World, =#3 U.S., #3 School)
Received each occasions on the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials—completed seventh within the HJ, fifth within the LJ, on the Tokyo Olympics
…grew to become the first American since Jim Thorpe (1912) to compete in each occasions on the Olympics
Didn’t make the ultimate within the Excessive Soar on the 2024 Olympics
Silver medalist within the Excessive Soar on the 2023 World Championships
2023 U.S. Champion—Excessive Soar;
2022 U.S. Indoor Champion—Excessive Soar; ninth on the 2022 World Out of doors Championships
Bronze medalist within the Excessive Soar on the 2018 World Junior (Beneath-20) Championships
PBs: 7-7 1/4i (2.32/2022), 7-8 ¾ (2.36/2021); 27-8 ¾i (8.45/2021), 27-9 ½ (8.47/2021);
2024 SB: 7-8 (2.34), 25-10 ¼ (7.88); 2025 SB: 7-3 ¾ (2.23)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JuVaughn_Harrison
Highway to Observe City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2NYp9ZFKWo
https://lsusports.internet/information/2019/6/24/211805742.aspx
https://www.tfrrs.org/athletes/6551772/LSU/Harrison_JuVaughn
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/sports activities/olympics/juvaughn-harrison-jump-olympics.html
Andra Manson 41 (1984) 2-time NCAA Champion (Texas)—Excessive Soar (2nd-2006,2007)
2004 NCAA Indoor Champion (2nd-2005,2006).
Bronze medalist on the 2008 World Indoor Championships
2008 U.S. Olympian (qual.spherical), ninth on the 2009 World Championships
3-time Penn Relays Champion (2004,2006,2007)
Set the present U.S. Excessive College File of 7-7 (2.31) whereas profitable the gold medal on the 2002 World Junior
Championships…Jesse Williams, who completed 4th on the World Juniors, posted this sequence of jumps from the meet
at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvRZqW7sDII
T&F Information H.S. Athlete of the Yr in 2002
PBs: 7-8 ½ (2.35/2009), 7-7 3/4i (2.33/2007)
Al Toon 62 (1963) Virginia state champion within the Triple Soar (Menchville H.S.). Had a better of 49-5 ¾ (50-1 3/4w)
Had an All-American soccer profession at Wisconsin
Grew to become probably the most widespread NY Jets after a profitable 8-year run as a large receiver with the staff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Toon
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/gamers/T/ToonAl00.htm
www.newyorkjets.com/photographs/happy-birthday-to-jets-legend-al-toon#c64e52ed-5458-47f6-88e7-1957467f1655
Deceased
Iris Davis 71 (1950) 2-time U.S. Champion—100y (1971,1973)
2-time U.S. Indoor Champion-60y (1972,1973)
1972 U.S. Olympian—100 (4th), 4×100 (4th)
1971 Pan-American Video games champion-100m, 4×100
Was a Tennessee State Tigerbelle
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/77800
