Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets

So Alan Runningart is from a small town in eastern Kentucky ... it's all beginning to make sense.

john bowden and andrew mcguigan at the end of an 800m heat in ottawa back in 89. some interesting gesturing and shoving as well as some colourful language... all in the last 80 meters or so

denton wrote:

canucklehad's story about the 'newf' is definitely the greatest fight in canadian distance running history

Close....went to school there for a year there. I'm from a metro area of about a million (Louisville, KY area).

Alan

I'm glad you knew I was just funnin' y'all. Heck, I'm from Hensteeth, Arkansas, myself.

Spring of 1970 I believe...Matt Centrowitz was a freshman at Andrew Jackson HS in Queens, NY (before he transferred to Power Memorial) running the 2 mile. This was a dual meet vs. Jamaica HS (my school) on Jackson's 352 yard track. In the middle of the race, Jackson's ace runner, Lenny Carlisle, gets in a dispute with a spectator. Lenny steps off the track, fights with the guy a little, gets back on the track and wins!! If Matt is out there, he can tell his version.

my only fight i've seen during a race was actually in cross country. during the mideast regional this year at baylor. a guy from sam houston state and a guy from A&M corpus christi were fighting because the mexican from sam houston called the guy from A&M a "n*****" haha

Thats gotta be the best one next to the one with the kid with the rake. HA! HA! Keep'em coming. ;)

was at a relay road race about 10 years and this 300lb fat guy came out on his porch and started screaming obscene things at the runners. He was evidently mad that the road was closed on this Sunday afternoon. Anyway, the race director (all of 145 lbs) ran down the road, called the dude out on the porch and decked him with one punch. The dude fell back through his sceen door onto his own kitchen floor. The race director stepped off the porch and went to the line for the relay exchange moments later. The funny thing was, the dude he punched was his step grandmothers son. The guy has never been seen on race day since. That's justice in the mountains boys. No cops, no arrests, only justice.

I meant this one :0)

Talk about gross exaggerations and total b.s. I was there in 2004 at Clemson and all it was was a little shoving match between country boys. No ghetto hoods at FSU or Clemson. I'm typing this from a dial-up line in South Central L.A. [I ain't shittin you, I hear the L.A.P.D. pig's helicopter overhead right now]. The officials broke it up in less that 10 seconds. The Clemson team was in it's normal spot at the end of the 1st turn next to the window. The FSU team was 180 degrees on the opposite side of the track. Both teams jumped out but were so far apart, the coaches and officials stopped any fights before they started. There must have been 50-75 officials and coaches there since it was the ACC indoors. The only contact was between the two guys on the track.

Did Bowden have long crazy mullet-like hair?

johnny utah wrote:

john bowden and andrew mcguigan at the end of an 800m heat in ottawa back in 89. some interesting gesturing and shoving as well as some colourful language... all in the last 80 meters or so

denton wrote:

canucklehad's story about the 'newf' is definitely the greatest fight in canadian distance running history

[quote]epo-phany wrote:

Did Bowden have long crazy mullet-like hair?

If it was the same John Bowden I once ran into; 1987 Portland, Cascade Runoff? Sounds like it.

couple years back at our conference meet, two post high school guys got into a fight when we were running. one pulled a gun, the other a knife, the knife guy went to the hospital, the gun guy ran. big news, meet was postponed, it sucked

"The ucla guy was Ville Ritola. 4:01 indoor miler."

no, that guy was Ben Aragon. again not a fight, Hall was elbowing like crazy and boxing aragon in. hall and aragon had some words, during and afterwards. robinson and hall had been boxing aragon in when hall went down.

hall was more concerned with boxing guys in then running his race. well, now hall has improved and aragon, who knows what he is up to now.

It was Braunskill who hit Trapp actually.

I was working at that meet (ACC indoor Championships in Johnson City, TN). Trapp (along with Michael Green from Jamaica and another sprinter I cannot recall) had previously swept the 55m for Clemson and were apparently talking trash to Kevin Braunskill from NCState in the blocks during the 200 later in the day. Braunskill won the 200 handily with Trapp coming in third (Reggie Harris from UNC came in second). On the victory podium, Braunskill said something that ticked Trapp off and Trapp knocked Braunskill's winner's plaque out of his hand. Braunskill picked it up and hit Trapp with it.

The next day someone stopped me on the street to ask me about 'the fight.' Apparently, ESPN showed footage and I was squarely in the picture during their footage.

the greatest fight ever was the 86 SWC 3K, Arkansas and Texas. Its legendary in both camps. It was the last big scoring race of the meet and both coaches put as many guys as they could in the race. It turned into a roller derby. Guys jumping in/jumping out. Guys getting pushed off the track/tackled/etc. I don't know an exact number of how many guys were DQ'd but it was quite a few. Both coaches were laughing about it. I never saw it but heard guys and assistant coaches speak of the race fondly. If anyone has details, I would love to hear. Joe Falcon won the race btw. I wonder if Consiglio was in the race or would have details.

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Just a typical race.

I heard the '96(?) MIAC Outdoor Championships were brutal.

Wasn't there... but heard S. Riddick(Coach from NSU) incited what was basically a riot.

Can anyone confirm this?

what about the time crazy russ zeigler from franklin and marshall tackled the the guy from western maryland on the back stretch (3rd leg) in the 4x4 about 10 years ago at the centennial conference meet.

they had been jostling for position and zeigler tripped, so he decided if he was going to go they both would....dragged the guy right into the grass inside lane 1 and they started throwing punches...the race went on without them...funny stuff.