TRACK & FIELD
The way to run the 100-yd. dash, Mel Patton once explained, is to "boom and float" explode from the starting blocks, drive hard for 50 yds., then "settle down and go for the ride." Slender and wiry, the World's Fastest Human of the '40s rode to a 9.3-sec. 100 a world record that stood unmolested for 13 years, until Villanova's Frank Budd clocked 9.2 sec. in 1961.
The World's Fastest Human today is a junior at Florida A. & M. who rarely booms and never floats. A shifty cut-and-shoot halfback on A. & M.'s football team, Robert...
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