Steve Prefontaine came from behind on the last lap to win over Frank Shorter, 13:23.8 - 13:32.2. 

Oregon's Dave Taylor was 3rd in 13:54.9.

Mac Wilkins scored a narrow discus win over Finland's Pentii Kohma, 212-3 - 211-4.

Karen Marshall (Oregon Track Club) won the women's shot put, and Liane Swegle (FTC) the 880 over Debbie Roth (OTC) and Eryn Forbes (OTC), 2:11.8-2:13.0-2:13.5.

Future Olympian Lynne Winbigler won the discus in 151' 2 1/2".

OTC's Ole Christensen won the steeplechase in 8:57.5, while Oregon's Stan Whigham won the high hurdles in 13.?w (hard to interpret this number). Oregon State's Butch Schmidt won the shot put at 62-0, while OTC's Steve DeAutrement won the hammer in 216-6.

Oregon's Al Hearvey won the first heat of the 100m in 9.5, while Robert Curry (UO) won the second in 9.6w.

Dave Hagmeier won the intermediate hurdles in 51.8, while Army's Barry McClure won the triple jump in 51-3.  

Oregon State's Tom Woods (the successor to Dick Fosbury at Oregon State) won the high jump at 7'2".

John Okoro (OSU) won the long jump with a leap of 25-2, edging teammate Devin Brown, 25-0 3/4".

Finland's Jorma Jaakola won the javelin at 269-0, while Army's Bob Wallis was second in 262-7.

Oregon's Paul Geis led a sweep of the two-mile with a winning time of 8:54.2. Terry Williams took second in 8:50.8, with Scott Daggatt 3rd in 8:54.2.

Steeple specialist Gary Barger (UO) won the mile in 3:58.8 with Mark Feig second in 4:00.4 and Lars Kaupang third in 4:01.4.

Antii Kalliomaki (Finland) won the pole vault by a foot and a half at 17-6, with Oregon State's Scott Fisher second in 16-0 and OSU's Cliff Barry 3rd at 15-6.

Al Dukowski (UO) won the first heat of the 220y in 21.0, with Al Hearvey (OTC) second in 21.3 and Bob Martin (OTC) third also in 21.3. Robert Curry (UO) won the second heat in 21.4.

In the greatest tie for 4th in track and field history, Tinker Hatfield and Craig Brigham both cleared 15-6 before going on to, respectively, design the Afro Duck as well as Air Jordans (Hatfield) and make the 1976 Olympic Team in the decathlon at home at Historic Hayward Field (Brigham).

Oregon State's Hailu Ebba ran unattached and won the 880 in 1:49.7. Interesting that Ebba, who had so many dramatic races with his friend, Pre, should have been present for Pre's last race.

The meet closed with the men's 5,000m.