How about George Brown (Jordan, Los Angeles) at LA on Apr 1, 1949.
At the '52 Olympics he had no fair jumps...
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Congrats to Jon Alquist for being the only one to correctly identify Willie
Steele as the one to break Owens' NCAA meet record. Of course, Steele's
mark,
the only 26-footer of his life, came at altitude (surprise!). (1947 NCAA in
Salt Lake City).
Remove Steele's mark from the equation and Owens' 26-1 1/4 from '35 (he
jumped shorter the next year) is the meet's only 26-footer until Greg Bell
of
Indiana jumps 26-7 in '57. After that, the meet doesn't get another one
until
Anthony Watson of Oklahoma jumps 26-1/2 in '62 (on Oregon's notorious raised
board runway). Shows you how far ahead of his time Owens really was.
Several people got the tricky Ohio State answer, which is either Chris
Sanders or nobody, depending on how you feel about mixing indoor/outdoor
marks.
But nobody has yet identified the guy who broke Owen's HSR (24-11 1/4 in
'34). Here's a hint: he also held the record for longest-ever win streak in
the event for decades (it was his record for such that Carl Lewis finally
broke), and Bert Nelson always labelled his one Olympic experience as one of
the great Oly flops of all time.
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