The 1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships was the 13th NCAA track and field championship meeting. The event was held at the

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in June 1934, with 323 athletes from 89 schools taking part. Stanford Indians, coached by

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, won the team championship with 63 points.

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, winners of the next nine team titles, took a close second, with defending champions

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placing third. In five events, the results as originally announced were adjusted after the meet as

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pictures were examined. According to the original results, Stanford's only individual champion was discus thrower Gordon "Slinger" Dunn, but hurdler Sam Klopstock was also awarded first place after the finish-line camera showed he had won by inches. Additional points finishes across the board, including a second and third place from John Lyman, propelled the Indians to victory. Glenn "Slats" Hardin of LSU and

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of Marquette were the only athletes to win two events.

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, who won the 1934 James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur sportsman in the United States, provided another of the meeting's highlights in winning the

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ahead of

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holder Glenn Cunningham.

Team scoring

1. Stanford - 63 points
2. USC - points
3. LSU - 43 points
4. Indiana - 20 points
4. Marquette - 20 points
6. Fresno State - 18 points
6. Manhattan - 18 points

Track events

100-yard dash
1.

, Marquette - 9.7 seconds
2. Charlie Parsons, USC
2. Hunter Russell, Illinois
4.

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, USC
5. Jimmy Willson, Stanford
6. Sterling Dupree, Auburn 120-yard high hurdles
1. Sam Klopstock, Stanford - 14.63
2. Amsden Oliver, Miami (Ohio)
3. George Fisher, LSU
4. Sam Allen, Oklahoma Baptist
5. Ned Bacon, Denison
6. Lee Haring, Emporia State 220-yard dash
1.

, Marquette - 20.9
2. Charlie Parsons, USC
3. Jimmy Willson, Stanford
4.

, USC
5. Sterling Dupree, Auburn
6. Ed Hall, Kansas 220-yard low hurdles
1.

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, LSU - 23.16 (hand time 22.7 equal meeting record, unratified world record)
2. Amsden Oliver, Miami (Ohio)
3. Heye Lambertus, Nebraska
4. Vince Reef, Occidental
5. Wilbert Randow, Texas A&M
6. Ned Bacon, Denison 440-yard dash
1.

, LSU - 47.0 (new meeting record)
2.

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, Indiana
3. John McCarthy, USC
4. Louis Brothers, Rice
5. Ed Ablowich, USC
6. Al Fitch, USC 880-yard run
1. Chuck Hornbostel, Indiana - 1:51.9
2. Jimmy Miller, UCLA
3. William Ray, Manhattan
4.

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, Fresno State
5. Estel Johnson, USC
6. Ted O'Neal, LSU One-mile run
1.

, Princeton - 4:08.9 (new meeting record)
2. Glenn Cunningham, Kansas
3. Gene Venzke, Penn
4. Harry Williamson, North Carolina
5. Otto Pongrace, Michigan State
6. Charles Nimmo, Stanford Two-mile run
1. Frank Crowley, Manhattan - 9:22.4
2. William Zepp, Eastern Michigan
3. Ray Sears, Butler
4. Robert Wagner, Oregon
5. John Sanders, LSU
6. Floyd Lochner, Oklahoma

Field events

Broad jump
1. Al Olson, USC - 25 feet, inches
2.

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, California
3. Moncure Little, William & Mary
3. Floyd Wilson, Fresno State
5. George Meagher, Notre Dame
6. Douglas Taylor, San Jose State High jump
1.

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, Fresno State - 6 feet, inches
1. George Spitz, NYU - 6 feet, inches
3. Lloyd Richey, Auburn
4. Will Brannan, USC
4. Vincent Murphy, Notre Dame
4. Howard Spencer, Geneva
4. Steve Woodbury, Dartmouth Pole vault
1. Jack Rand, San Diego State - 14 feet, inch (new meeting record)
2. Bud Deacon, Stanford
3. James Fimple, USC
3. Ray Lowry, Eastern Michigan
3. Scott Massey, UCLA
3. Irving Seely, Illinois
3. Charles Van Tress, California Shot put
1.

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, LSU - 54 feet, inches (new meeting record)
2. John Lyman, Stanford
3. George Theodoratus, Washington State
4. Gordon Dunn, Stanford
5. Honk Irwin, Texas A&M
6. Hueston Harper, USC Discus throw
1.

Gordon Dunn Gordon Glover "Slinger" Dunn (April 16, 1912 – July 26, 1964) was an American discus thrower who won a silver medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics, a U.S. Navy lieutenant, and former mayor of Fresno, California from 1949-1957. Godron Dunn was bo ...

, Stanford - 162 feet, 7 inches
2. Ken Carpenter, USC
3. John Lyman, Stanford
4. Honk Irwin, Texas A&M
5. Wes Busbee, Indiana
6. Chester Cruikshank, Colorado State Javelin throw
1. Bob Parke, Oregon - 220 feet, inches (new meeting record)
2. John Mottram, Stanford
3. Ralston LeGore, North Carolina
4. Nathan Blair, LSU
5. Horace Odell, Manhattan
6. William Reitz, UCLA Hammer throw
1.

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, Rhode Island - 169 feet, inches
2. Pete Zaremba, NYU
3. Donald Favor, Maine
4. Chester Cruikshank, Colorado State
5. Gantt Miller, West Virginia
6. Norman Cahners, Harvard

References

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Team scoring

Track events

Field events

See also

References