1968 Franklin Field AAU meet

[oldshotputter]

On June 15, 1968 there was an AAU meet, at Franklin Field in Philadelphia some type of championship, probably some regional type championship. A friend, at age 24, entered in the shotput as part of the Philadelphia Hawks team. I was wondering if anyone knew what I could do to get some type of results from that meet for the shotput ... part of a Christmas present.

[Bruce Kritzler]

newspaper archives or microfish?

[gh]

Microfish is what I eat on my sushi diet :-)

[Swensen]

Phila. AAU Search

Oldshotputter, You might have some luck with old clippings from the Phila Bulletin sports pages. Clippings and film from the Bulletin might be found at Temple's Urban Archive Collection as stated here:

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Records deeper than the top finishers might be found by tracing sources of the local AAU clubs that were active in 1968. The Penn AC was one such prominent club.


I have little archive experience, but I imagine there are others on this board who have had experience searching Phila area archives. Good luck and to assist others, you might post back any successful search avenues.

[oldshotputter]

Thanks for the suggestions, re: Temple, etc. I think the sushi route may be the ultimate solution.

[James Fields]

Old shotputter wrote:
On June 15, 1968 there was an AAU meet, at Franklin Field in Philadelphia some type of championship, probably some regional type championship. A friend, at age 24, entered in the shotput as part of the Philadelphia Hawks team. I was wondering if anyone knew what I could do to get some type of results from that meet.
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Rules of that era required regional championships, then a rarity, to be held "at least two weeks" before Nationals which in 1968 were on June 20-21 in Sacramento.

So the June 15 meet in Philadelphia may have been the 1968 "Middle Atlantiic" Association Championships in which men's shot was won by R. Haynie with put of 53 feet, 10-1/2 inches. [Source: 1969 AAU Handbook]

For further details, with the meet date known, it's relatively easy to get results from the sports section of microfilmed daily newspaper of the next day (16 June 1968, when such results would likely have gotten good display and space).

Such microfilm is commonly available in university libraries, and the film reader is usually connected to a coin-operated printer for making hard copies. Such libraries, which I've used 20 years for gathering results, tend to have many newspapers from their own states as well as major city newspapers from adjoining states plus "national" newspapers such as the New York Times. Ideally you would visit a Pennsylvania library.

[oldshotputter]

Thanks. As it happens, I''ll be in Pittsbrugh for a week for Christmas.

[Halfmiler2]

That may not help. Pittsburgh in in the Three Rivers Association, not Middle Atlantic. The latter includes Philly, Harrisburg, and Penn State.

[Master Mirthmaker]

"The Philadelphia Inquirer", 6/16/1968
June 15, 1968 Middle Atlantic Track and Field Championships @ Franklin Field

Shot: 1. Bob Hayne Penn AC 53-10.50
2. Vic Monciewicz - Phila. Pioneer
3. Rory Landruff - Phila. Pioneer

No other marks listed. Suggest you check ,"The Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin", for Sunday, June 16, 1968.
Good luck.

[stillrunning]

correct spelling

It's Monkiewicz and Landreth, both teammates of mine at Father Judge HS in Philadelphia, and then at St. Joe's. "Monk" was, I believe a '68 college grad, Rory class of '70... also Penn Relays HS shot winner in 1966. We were all teammates of Vince Papale..."Invincible".

[oldshotputter]

Thanks, did the 16th Enquirer have woman's results? My friend is one of those although I think she was 4th and may not be listed.

[Master Mirthmaker]

"The Inquirer", results has women's results same format, top 3 with winning time.