Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finest exhibition of jumping, both horizontal and vertical, ever seen on an indoor track. First, Olympic Champion Don Bragg, in top form, vaulted 15 ft. 7 in., barely missed becoming the first man in history to clear 16 ft.-when his hand brushed the crossbar on the way down. Then gaunt, sinewy Ralph Boston, legs wildly pumping, leaped 26 ft. 1¾ in. to better his own world indoor broad jump record by an astonishing...
During the indoor season, Shavlakadze withdrew from active competition. Not Brumel. A dark-haired, 6 ft. 1 in. Ukrainian, Brumel laughed at the long-popular theory that a high jumper can go no more than one foot above his own head, last month leaped 7 ft. 4½ in. in Leningrad to set an unofficial world indoor record, top Thomas' indoor best by 1½ in. In the buildup for last week's contest, Boston U.'s public relations chief quoted Thomas as saying of Brumel's jump: "I want to see it before...
...first jump. Three times Thomas leaped, and three times he carried the bar with him into the sawdust-filled pit. Still not finished, Brumel asked officials to raise the bar to 7 ft. 3 in.-and cleared it by a full 4 in., tying Thomas' world indoor record. Hurrying now, he made three quick attempts at 7 ft. 5 in., missed them, all narrowly. But Russia's Brumel had shown more than enough for a still-improving 18-year-old. Another day, another record...
...broke in the evening's first race, sending 1000 ace Bowers against Mullin and Jed Fitzgerald in the mile. Both Crimson runners pulled away on the last lap, and Mullin barely defeated Fitzgerald in 4:22.1. In the freshman mile, Eddie Meehan ran 4:22.5 for Harvard freshman indoor and freshman Cage marks. The Yardlings won their meet...
...iron-man performance by Mark Mullin led the varaity track team to a 57 1/2-51 1/2 triumph over Army Saturday afternoon in the Snake Pit. It took a victory in the meet's final event, the two-mile relay, to give the Crimson its first really big indoor success in more than two years...