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Don't know how many of you subscribe to Walter Murphy's Eastern Track or Cross Country Express. But if either periodical fills a niche for your t&f interests, you should!
Subscribers also get the advantage of Walter's e-mailed news service bulletins, including the wonderful tidbits of This Day In Track.
Here's one of the nuggets for January 12:
1977--This day marked the appearance of the first issue of my first newsletter--Eastern Track. The newsletter was started as a replacement for "The New Breed", which was put out by Pete Schuder while he was coaching at Columbia University. While The New Breed primarily covered the IC4A, the original "E.T." expanded to include coverage of all schools in the Northeast (Men & Women--Maine to Virginia), and also covered high school and open action. In that pre-internet/laptop era, results were prepared on an old-fashioned typewriter and the newsletter was run off on a mimeograph machine that Schuder had used (you youngsters can ask your parents to explain those ancient artifacts).
Among the results included in that first issue: Princeton's Craig Masback won the mile in 4:18.8 in a tri-meet with St.John's and Temple and a 1000y in 2:13.9 in a dual meet with Rutgers; In the first meet held at Fordham's Vince Lombardi Center, former Ram Marcel Phillippe won the 1000y(2:11.4) and mile (4:11.0); Former NYU star Byron Dyce won a 1/2-mile race at NY's Armory in 1:53.8; Jan Merrill bettered Mary Decker's World Record (2:26.7) in the women's 1000y by running 2:25.2 on Army's oversized track; Tim St Lawrence jumped 16-1 to win his 15th consecutive Metropolitan AAU Senior title in the pole vault(8 indoors, 7 outdoors); New Jersey prep Renaldo Nehemiah, a senior at Scotch Plains H.S., ran 6.9 twice in the prelims of a development meet at Princeton to tie the National H.S. Record in the 60y-hurdles (4 hurdles), then ran 7.0 in the final.
Congratulations and hearty thank yous to Walter for scraping by for 30 years while the rest of us have gone along for a great ride!
Subscribers also get the advantage of Walter's e-mailed news service bulletins, including the wonderful tidbits of This Day In Track.
Here's one of the nuggets for January 12:
1977--This day marked the appearance of the first issue of my first newsletter--Eastern Track. The newsletter was started as a replacement for "The New Breed", which was put out by Pete Schuder while he was coaching at Columbia University. While The New Breed primarily covered the IC4A, the original "E.T." expanded to include coverage of all schools in the Northeast (Men & Women--Maine to Virginia), and also covered high school and open action. In that pre-internet/laptop era, results were prepared on an old-fashioned typewriter and the newsletter was run off on a mimeograph machine that Schuder had used (you youngsters can ask your parents to explain those ancient artifacts).
Among the results included in that first issue: Princeton's Craig Masback won the mile in 4:18.8 in a tri-meet with St.John's and Temple and a 1000y in 2:13.9 in a dual meet with Rutgers; In the first meet held at Fordham's Vince Lombardi Center, former Ram Marcel Phillippe won the 1000y(2:11.4) and mile (4:11.0); Former NYU star Byron Dyce won a 1/2-mile race at NY's Armory in 1:53.8; Jan Merrill bettered Mary Decker's World Record (2:26.7) in the women's 1000y by running 2:25.2 on Army's oversized track; Tim St Lawrence jumped 16-1 to win his 15th consecutive Metropolitan AAU Senior title in the pole vault(8 indoors, 7 outdoors); New Jersey prep Renaldo Nehemiah, a senior at Scotch Plains H.S., ran 6.9 twice in the prelims of a development meet at Princeton to tie the National H.S. Record in the 60y-hurdles (4 hurdles), then ran 7.0 in the final.
Congratulations and hearty thank yous to Walter for scraping by for 30 years while the rest of us have gone along for a great ride!
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