On this day 52 years ago, Robin Lingle ’60 finished 5th in the 1500 meters at the NCAA Championships.

The former Brooker ran a University of Missouri record time of 3:42.0 in front of 12,000 at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field. In a deep field, only 4.4 seconds separated the seven runners and the top two finishers broke the NCAA, meet, and Hayward Field records in the process, besting the previous mark of 3:40.9. Just one day earlier, Lingle set the Hayward Field 1500 record with a 3:45.6 time in the trials. It would be 11 years before the record was broken at Mizzou and it remains the second-best time ever recorded by a Tiger.

Lingle’s performance at the NCAAs capped a season in which he was the Conference Champion in the mile (4:05.9) and the 5,000 yards (14:26.9) and an All-American in the mile after a 3rd place finish at the NCAA Championships.

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NCAA 1500 Championship Results

1.	Morgan Groth	Oregon State	3:40.4
2.	Archie San Romani	Oregon	3:40.8
3.	John Camien	Emporia State	3:41.0
4.	Ben Tucker	San Jose State	3:41.4
5.	Robin Lingle	Missouri	3:42.0
6.	Bob Day	UCLA	3:42.1
7.	Richard Romo	Texas	3:44.8