Hide Article Text (OCR)
Shi(whForiDyceinesinrourFlt;Conference MeetAn injury riddled ET track team could do no better than eighth among 10 teams at the Lone Star Conference Track Meet last weekend in Alpine.There were some bright spots in the ET performance, most notably that of Dennis Dyce.Now a senior, Dyce almost repeated his freshman feat of conference champion. His 47.5 in the 440 dash was good enough for second place behind Charles Callahan of Southwest Texas.A1 Taylor, also a senior, finished two places behind Dyce in the quar-ter-mile event. His 48.6 was the fourth best time in the conference meet.Wayne Rucker broke the ET record in the pole vault, his 15-0 vault brining him fourth in the conference. The previous record was 14-6 set by Rucker in 1969 and David Sikes in 1963.Tim Davis threw the javelin 176’2” to capture the fifth place position in that event.In the 440 relay Eld Kubicek, Ira Gordon, Denis Dyce, and Ed Latimer clocked a 41.3 to finish fifth.The always present injuries showed up in Gordon and Don Armstead. Gordon pulled up lame in the finals of the 440 dash. Armstead pulled a muscle in the preliminaries of the 120 high hurdles.Six records were tied or broken in the annual event.In the 100-yard dash Robert Bradley of McMurry tied the existing record with a time of 9.4. Tony Garza, Texas AI; Jimmy White, SFA; Ernest Haynes, AI; and R. L. Lasiter, ET, all hold the record concurrently.Charles Callahan of Southwest Texas broke the 440 dash record set in 1964 by Morris Kyser of ET. Callahan’s 46.9 was .3 of a second faster than the old record.Howard Payne’s Marvin Utecht shattered the old record in the 440 intermediate hurdles with a 52.3 clocking. The old record of 53.7 was set by John Davenport of AI in1969.Southwest Texas’ mile relay team surpassed AI’s old record by .1 of a second. Homer Guerrero, Roger Byas, John Davis, and Charles Callahan were clocked in 3:12.7.Originally an alternate in the program, Johnson received word Tues-constIn the 120 high hurdles Bob Daniels of Texas AI ran a 14.0 to tie his own record set last year.SoulertsStepplaySotourship(hosStep909;TarlA 16-6 vault by Ricky Parris of McMurry was over a full foot higher than the old record of 15-4 set by Jerry Adams of Sam Houston in 1968. Parris’ efforts in the pole vault won him the Oscar W. Strahan Award for the best athlete in the field events.PayiThe Shelton Award for best runner went to Charles Callahan of Southwest Texas for his performances in the mile relay ,the 220-yard dash (second in 21.5), the 440-yard dash, and the 440-yard relay (third with a 40.8).Hesuits70-75Gam80-79240.Johnson WinsAndrew Johnson, Dallas senior and honors student foreign languages, has become the first ETSU student in the school’s history to win a Ful-bright Fellowship.perfe cou r s Jot EtaganizAssocHecutivlt;I ✓
Newspaper Details
Commerce East Texan
Commerce, Texas, US
Wed, May 13, 1970
Page 6
Full Page
Clipped by
Julie U.
USA 08 Nov 2018
Other Publications Near Commerce, Texas
Commerce East Texan
Commerce Weekly Herald
Commerce Weekly Farm Journal
Commerce Morning Journal
Commerce Daily Journal
