Word: booed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regular New England AAU competition, Boo Morcom, "the barefoot boy from New Hampshire," won the pole vault championship with a hoist of 14 feet; Rudy Forbert, a barrel-chested Tufts junior, took the broad jump at 21 feet, 6 1/3 inches; and Olympic hammer thrower Bob Bennett won the regular 35-pound weight throw with a loft of 52 feet, 1 7/3 inches...
...Boo Morcum and Bob Richards will lead the field of pole vaulters, in their second appearance in recent weeks on the Boston scene. Mikkola will send Bill Laurence and Bill Lockett against them, but with 22 entries listed for the event, it could be anybody's victory...
Best performances of the afternoon came in the exhibition pole vault and weight throw. In the former, Olympic vaulter A. Richmond (Boo) Morcom beat out Harvard's 1946 IC4A champion Pete Harwood with a hoist of 14 feet. "The barefoot boy from New Hampshire" was invited to come here by Sam Felton, who took time out from his studies at the Business School to heave the 35-pound weight 54 feet, 11 3/4 inches...
...Boo Morcom, "the barefoot boy from New Hampshire," will put on a special polevaulting exhibition at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Briggs Cage as a feature of the informal track meet between Boston University, Northeastern, and the Crimson...
...Sympathy was the right prescription for Big Bill. He began pitching brilliantly. He won the last six games he pitched for the Braves last year, and the first four this year. When Giant fans boo him now, he feels like thumbing his nose, but pretends dignified indifference...