Word: crossbar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When you watch Chris Paradee sail over a crossbar at 6 ft., 10 in., or Jim Baker pound out two miles in 9:05.5, it all looks so easy. But the team's victories have been especially difficult this year. As the indoor season opened it found itself without some of its best runners, and with lots of its best runners, and with lots of promise but no security in the weight events...
Pardee made his winning jump on his second try at the height, and just missed in his second attempt at 6 ft., 11 in, when his trailing leg brushed the crossbar. Pardee also scored a surprise second in the broad jump with a 23 ft., 6 1/2 in. leap, 2 1/2 in. short of the winning jump by Navy's Tom Palkie...
Miller's luck evened up three minutes later. A shot by Kevin Burke bounced off the crossbar and the third-line center had only to nudge the puck as it lay invitingly on the goal line...
Schoonover pushed his pole vault mark to 14 ft., 3 in. in Briggs Cage last weekend and cleared 14 ft., 6 in., only to topple the crossbar on the way down. With a long runway, a high ceiling and strong competition, tomorrow, he should go higher still. But he won't beat John Pennel, the feature attraction in the K of C's. Pennel not either an American or a world record--depending on which paper you read--on the West Coast last weekend...
...Crimson fans. After Harvard lost one yard on its first series of downs, Princeton began to drive from its own 38. The march was halted on the Crimson 31, and in came Gogolak to attempt a 48-yard field goal. The kick was perfectly straight, but it hit the crossbar and bounded back onto the field...