Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumania's leggy Yolanda Balas high-jumped a record 5 ft. 11½ in. in Los Angeles, and Britain's tidy Mary Rand broke the broad-jump record twice in one week, an event now discreetly referred to as the "ladies' long jump...
...fierce. Two weeks ago, when they met at the Los Angeles Times Indoor Games, Ralph was wearing a Russian beanie, a souvenir from last summer's U.S.-Russia track meet. "It's my good-luck piece," he explained, and he needed it. On his first jump, Boston soared 26 ft. Ter-Ovanesyan quickly topped that with a leap of 26 ft. 3 in. Then, in the final round, Boston uncorked a floating leap of 26 ft. 4¾ in. to go out in front once again. The Russian gave it a last desperate try, and the crowd held...
Sedlacek got off to a rather slow start this season, but when Ivy League play began he was hitting his long jump shot with astounding regularity. In the Crimson's Ivy opener against Columbia he had 33 points, and he scored 35 against the Lions in New York...
Employing a Boston Celtics-style fast break, the Wheaties drew first blood and rolled up an early 9-0 lead. Radcliffe was unable to contain Wheaton's experienced ball-handling, and did not score until the last minute of the first half when captain Karia Krendi hit a jump shot from the corner...
...jump, traditionally Harvard's weakest event, the Crimson placed seventh, with Fred Noyes who finished eighteenth leading the team...