Word: crossbar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sueo Ohe of Keio University with only five days to accustom himself to a board runway, indoor performing, New York City and new vaulting poles, smilingly hoisted himself through the din of the evening hours up over the rising crossbar until World Record Holder George Varoff of the University of Oregon (14 ft., 6½ in.), Olympic Champion Earle Meadows of Southern California (14 ft., 3¼ in.) and five other contestants had tumbled defeated into the sawdust landing pit. Ohe sailed easily over 14 ft. 3 in. for a new meet record. A jury of sportswriters voted...
Goggled against the stinging snow and wind that burn your face, you sit tense in a narrow cockpit, legs braced, toes hooked under a crossbar. The tiller jerks and trembles in your hands, intensifying your sensation of speed. A few inches beneath you is the ice, now white and granular, now slick as black glass, racing by to the singing of the wind in your rigging and the crisp cutting sound of the sharp-bladed runners. You put your nose down into your muffler to catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved...
Since the advancement of Bill Tabler, veteran drum major, to the rank of drill master, concern has been felt throughout the University that the grand entrance of the band during the year's first intermission would be unheralded by the traditional crossbar fling...
...left guard Miller of Kirkland House which won the game, Miller, dropping into the backfield from his line position, toed the sphere over the crossbar for the decisive point...
...teach his men their positions, the talent is there and the team which lost to Andover on a fluke ruling of a ball which hit a crossbar and bounced out, and suffered a tie with Exeter when a fullback missed his kick, has some surprises in store for Dartmouth, Brown, Worcester, Tufts, and Yale...