This Day in Track & Field History, March 26, Ben Eastman sets WRs for 400 meters/440 yards (1932), by Walt Murphy
Walt Murphy’s News and Results Service (wmurphy25@aol.com) This Day in Track & Field–March 26 1932–Stanford’s Ben Eastman set World Records for 400-meters and 440-yards when he ran 46.4 in Palo Alto. Bud Spencer, who held the previous 400 record (47.0), wrote in his biography on Eastman’s coach, Dink Templeton-”High Above the Olympians”–”Templeton was surely the […]