Word: crossbar
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...change which Farrell disapproved of was that made in the specifications for the standards in the high jump and pole vault. The new standards required by the I. C. A. A. A. A. permit the crossbar to fall off either backward or forward, and the bar rests on a support 1 1-2 inches by 2 3-8 inches, instead...
Ohio State's try for goal point went a few inches below the crossbar. What with this, and the activities of Benny Friedman of Michigan, 90,000 people in Columbus, Ohio, saw Michigan...
...afternoon last week, straightened his pillows, helped him into a faded, favorite bathrobe, and opened the door for a delegation of the American Legion, headed by National Commander John R. McQuigg. They had come to pin on him a Distinguished Service Medal suspended by a ribbon from a gold crossbar containing 74 diamonds...
...bound was made by Sabin W. Carr, a native of Dubuque and a sophomore in Yale University. Competing at Yale in intramural track and field games, he took a long pole in his hand and measured off his distance from a white crossbar. For a moment he stood quite still, as if absorbed in reverie; then his feet twinkled on the runway, the end of his pole prodded the ground. His tense body shot up and up, at first vertical, then changing in the air, with the leisured slowness of immense physical effort, to a horizontal position/SUP...
...Harvard backfield. But however funny the name of Chauncey-or the name of Marion Adolphus Cheek, for that matter-may have been to pool-parlor nickel-spinners, the weaker sisters of the Harvard eleven would have fared badly had not Chauncey's toe sent a ball over the crossbar. Score: Harvard 3, Brown...