Another person just refreshed my memory. At the NAIA national meet that
year, it was not a relay but the open 800. In total it was:
Tommy Fulton won the mile and 3 mile and placed second in the 880
and 6 mile. He beat Mike Boit (4th in Munich) in the mile.
Now that was an athlete!
Fred Finke
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Fred Finke wrote:
Fulton did one of the most amazing things I ever saw at NAIA nationals
(Henderson University, Arkadelphia, Ark) in I think it was 1973. He ran
the
3 mile, 6 mile and mile (3:58.?) and scored in all three. I also think he
ran a leg of the 4 x 8 or DMR. He was a one man track team.
I think once at his conference meet (Southwestern Athletic Conference) he
won
the 880, mile, 3 mile, and 6 mile (or their metric equivalents).
He also ran the last 600 meters in the 1972 Olympic Trials final with one
shoe,
after losing it due to someone clipping his heel.
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