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Another freshman, captain of this year's team, Bill Geick will broad-jump against the English, together with Charlie Haase of Yale. Neither of the Americans has come close to the 22 foot distance that Cambridge star Edwards has been able to jump on several occasions this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoring System Will Favor British in Track Meet | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...hatful of ideas. One of them paid off. It was a fleet of baby flattops to extend U.S. air power across the Atlantic. As much as anything, his carriers broke the back of the U-boat campaign. Another Kaiser scheme was a fleet of 500 enormous cargo planes to broad-jump over the subs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Pay Dirt | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Captured the N.C.A.A. broad-jump title, with a leap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 14, 1947 | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...Broad-jump--Won by Bundy (Y); second, H. Thayer (H); third, Grimes (Y). Distance 12 ft., 11 1/2 in. (new cage and meet record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mikkolamen Top Yale at New Haven By 55-45 Count Before 1000 Fans | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Although coach Mikkola is getting the maximum amount of mileage out of his sprinters, this department, together with the broad-jump, is perhaps the weakest on the squad. Otherwise, the current track team bears the typical Mikkola stamp--overwhelmingly powerful in the field events, good in the hurdles, not so good in some of the running events...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/20/1947 | See Source »

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