Stanford Stadium, Palo Alto, CA, March 19, 1927
The world's top high jump result was established early in the season at the Stanford University Stadium. Future Olympic champion Robert King won the event by clearing 1.988 (6-6¼).
From the shot put circle, the brass ball flew angrily. Clifford Hoffman, who dominated the event in the 1927 season along with Finland's Kalle Järvinen, launched the year's seventh-longest throw of 15.06 (49-5). It was only 11 centimeters short of the season's best mark that Järvinen would later achieve in the summer.