Long Beach City College - Saga Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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VIKING CINDERMEN (left to right) George Davis, Bob Goodson, Mit Hunt, and George Janquart work out together for the big meef against Valley. JEFF SMITH set a school nnark in the shot put. I P ' t LONG BEACH STRONGMAN Bill Pace strains to heave the shot put over 55 feet In meet against East L.A. Pace set a school record In the event earlier in the year which was later bettered. 23 VIKING HURDLER Paul Reynolds is shown clearing a high hurdle during a workout on the Viking cinder. Reynolds was Joe tanning ' s top man In the 120 highs.

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br Dennis Courtemarche 19fiVs edition of the Viking track squad began the season on an opti- mistic note with a convincing win over Harbor JC, and as SAGA went to press. Coach Joe Lanning ' s finest track tram was still in a gay mood. The Vike tracksters finished first in Metropolitan Conference dual meet standings with a perfect 7-0 record, first in the Metro Conference meet with 120 points, first in the East L.A. Relays, first in the South- em California meet, and heavy fav- orite to win their first State Track and Field Championships. No less than seven records were established by this year ' s aggregation. George Davis set a school standard in the 880(1:52.9). Bob Goodson in the mile (4:9.2). Mit Hunt in the 2 mile (9:31.5), Jeff Smith in the shot- put (57-11 2), and John Champion in the pole vault (14-6). Chuck Hunt, Bob Goodson, Mit Hunt, and Tim Russell set a new mark in the mile relay (3:15.5), and John Rambo be- came the seventh man in the history of track and field in the U.S. to clear the seven foot barrier in the high jump (7-0). Rambo erased the oldest record in the books at LBCC with his jumj). The old mark was set by Bill Corwin (6-5 4) way back in 1940. Missing from the above list is Tim Russell, who last year set LBCC standards in the 100, 220 and the 440. This year Russell equaled his mark in the 100 (9.5) and was credited with times of 9.3 in the 100 and 19.9 in the 220 — with the aid of slight winds. Though Jeff Smith set a school mark in the shot put, the consistent I)erformances of Bill Pace were good enough to win every conference dual meet and the Metro crown in the event. In fact, it took a school record for Smith to finally best Pace. Terry Hendrix didn ' t set any school records in his specialty (the hurdles) but possessed the best time B C State JC Champs ' COACH JOE LANNING in the state in the 220-yard lovir hurdles. He also bested East L.A. ' s top broad jumper Rock McKeever in the dual meet with the Huskies vdth a jump of 24-1114. If this were not enough, Hendrix was called on to participate in the pole vault against San Diego while John Champion was injured, and he won the event. 1963, one of the greatest years in the history of sports at LBCC, also marked the first year in which the Viking track team won the confer- ence title in both dual and confer- ence meet standings. BIG JOHN RAMBO dears the bar at 6 ' l|l , . Rambo later jumjed seven feet to win the Southern Ca tornia high jump championship.

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' k «« ,. I 4»- -A HURDLERS JACK COX (left) and Terry Hendrix sail over the hurdles at the same time in meet with San Diego. Hendrix, aided by the wind, zoomed to « 23.0 clocking in the 220 lows. BROAD JUMPER Terry Frank kicks for that extra foot in a Metro meet. Frank was a con- sistent performer for the Vikes in 63. JOHN CHAMPION soars over the bar at I4 ' 6 to set a school record in the pole vault. 24