Embree, Ajootian Place First As Team Places Sixth in Heps

The Harvard track team took sixth place out of ten teams in the Heptagonal meet at Brown Saturday despite the stellar performances of Mel Embree and Ed Adjootian.

Embree captured the high jump with a leap of 7 ft. 3 in., setting a meet record in the process. "I should've jumped higher," Embree said yesterday.

"At 6 ft. 10 in. I was a few miles over the bar," he continued. "I cleared 7 ft. 2 in. by a couple of inches, but on my third jump at 7 ft. 3 in. I thought the bar had fallen."

Ed Ajootian captured the hammer throw with a toss of 208 ft. 2 in., bettering his personal mark by more than 12 feet and setting a new University record.

"I thought more about throwing it rather than about technique,' Adjootian said yesterday. "Sometimes you forget that distance is the object."

Hometown Honey

Ajootian was psyched up a little more than usual because the site of the meet is about a half-mile from his home. "I had thrown there in high school state meets and practiced on it a lot," Ajootian continued. "I knew the circle."

Other Harvard trackmen placed high in their events. David Kinney placed second in the javelin, Huntington Block and Mitch Whitten garnered fifth places in the long jump and shot put, respectively, and Jeff Stiles placed third in the pole vault.

Harvard's strongest field showing was in the high jump, where two other jumpers placed besides Embree. John McCulloh took second place with a 7 ft. jump and Dan Sullivan placed fourth.

But Harvard only placed in three of the 11 running events, which mustered only five of Harvard's 32 points.

Sam Butler placed fourth in the 400 meter hurdles and Jeff Campbell took fifth place in the 1500 meters. The Harvard 1600 meter relay team came in fourth.

Penn, Navy, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Army bested the Harvard cindermen, while Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Yale all placed below the Crimson.

Saturday the track team takes on Army in a dual meet at Soldiers Field.