Patterson Field, Los Angeles, CA, April 12, 1930
The fastest 4x440-yard relay race of the 1930 season took place at the California intercollegiate meet. The Stanford University quartet worked hard for the win in the final event, clocking a world-leading time of 3:15.4. The opposing team, the University of Southern California (USC), gave it their all and lost by only a couple of meters, taking the world's second-best time of 3:15.6 as their reward.
Stanford’s winning time was ranked fourth all-time among all teams. The quality of the relay was so high that both Stanford and USC would have earned silver medals with their respective times at the Amsterdam Olympics.
In the 100-yard dash, Stanford's Hector Dyer somewhat surprisingly beat USC's Olympian Frank Wykoff, setting a personal best of 9.6. Dyer got a great start—according to some journalists, he might have even shaved off a bit of time at the gun. The grandson of a wealthy businessman maintained his fitness nicely through the end of the collegiate season, where he claimed the IC4A championship.
Bob Van Osdel, who had jumped a world-leading mark in March, won the high jump again, although this time he had to settle for a 1.972 (6-5½), the season's sixth-best.
The University of Southern California defeated Stanford for the second time since 1917, having lost all other matches to Stanford in between.
Dyer breaks the tape (AP)