Fresno, CA, April 30, 1927
At the West Coast Relays, it wasn't the relays that impressed as much as the field events. Stanford University's versatile Clifford Hoffman, who in addition to track and field also played American football, dominated both the shot put and discus competitions with confident performances. His shot put victory (49-2) was just two centimeters shy of 15 meters. In the discus, Biff launched the third-longest throw in the world rankings at 47.02 (154-3½). Two-time Paris Olympic champion Bud Houser threw the discus the second farthest. In third place was Eric Krenz, a relatively unknown future world record holder in 1927.
Olympic champion Lee Barnes won the pole vault with the season's fourth-best result of 4.13 (13-6¾). More good jumping results were also achieved. Fred Zombro of Stanford leaped to the season's seventh-best mark of 7.46 (24-5¾) from the board. Jess Hill finished second.
Ross Nicholls, who was fifth in the U.S. Championships, won the 120-yard hurdles by clocking the season's second-best time of 14.6 seconds, a mark achieved by three other American high hurdlers in 1927.
Stanford University won the team competition.