In the women's competition, Harvard freshman Jennifer St. Louis shattered the old mark of 108-ft., 4. in by tossing the javelin 135-ft., 5-in.

Cambridge's Tina Casting hit 19-ft., 2-1/4-in. in the long jump, more than a foot better than the 18-ft., 1-in. record set two years ago.

On the track, the Harvard/Yale women's 4 X 100-meter relay team ran the course in 50.01, bettering the 50.2 record time, also set in 1983.

"It's a fast track, but it's a bit windy," Hand said of Harvard's new outdoor facility.

In men's events, Yale sophomore James Driscoll threw the hammer 192-ft., 4-in., beating out his closest competition by 31 feet and obliterating the 1979 meet record of 176-ft., 11-in.

It's nice to have a guy like that on our side for once.

Oxford's Phil McDonnell won the high jump with a 7-ft, effort, squeaking to a new record over the previous 6-ft., 11-3/4-in mark.

Harvard's Jim Herberich and Mark Henry ran to victories in the 400-meter hurdles and 200-meter dash, respectively. Herberich's 54.38 time pushed him past Oxford's Mark Hardie (54.72), while Henry's 22.50 earned him the first-place finish over Christopher Cholerton, also of Oxford (22.68).

In their original letter to the American coaches, the English university presidents expressed the conviction that "such international sports between the two leading universities of Great Britain and the United States could not fail to rouse the highest interest of all lovers of amateur athletics."

Eighty-six years later, those words still ring true.