The track surfaces were most likely cinder or worse nothing like the fast mondo track surfaces of today. That time is hard to put in perspective but it is so fast for that point in track history. We have yet to look at every record list from the yearbooks, but as of 1962, Jack Milne still had the school record for the 880 yard dash from 1938 with a time of 1:59.5. Ten years after graduating Toms River High School, Milne still held both the mile and half-mile Shore Conference records. The next year, he won the mile at this race. In 1935, Jack Milne came in third in the mile in the Princeton Invitational as a freshman. In high school Jack Milne was a standout athlete. He lived on Lexington Avenue in Toms River, which was located only a couple of blocks from the school. Jack’s running career started at Toms River High School in the mid 1930s, almost 40 years before the school eventually became known as Toms River South High School as the other two high schools broke off to form North and East.
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