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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continuing his discussions with the CRIMSON on America's chances at the Olympics, Coach E. L. Farrell, University track coach said that in the field events the United States outranked the Europeans in the high jump, the pole vault, the discus throw and the broad jump...
Turning to our chances in the high jump, the experienced mentor said, "America will far outshine anything which Europe offers in this event. This statement is based on the fact that we have four men who are better than Europe's best. Osborne from the I. C. A. A. A. A. holds the record with six feet and six inches; Maynard from Dartmouth has jumped six feet and four inches; Juday from Pennsylvania and King from Stanford have done six feet and four inches, and six feet and five inches, respectively. The best Europeans are Nilson, the Swede...
...thrown the plate at least 150 feet. The best which Europe can show is the German, Hanchen's, 149 foot shot. Others are all under 146 feet. We will more than hold our own in that event," Farrell added, "and I can say the same of the broad jump...
...nevertheless, the opinion of the college youth held by Bill Stonaker, veteran engineer on the Junction branch of the Pennsylvania railroad which hauls all of the boys to Princeton who do not walk, has taken a sudden jump for the better in the past few years...
Sixty three men, one jump or more ahead of death, were listed last week by the Army Air Corps. Called the Caterpillar Club this unofficial organization is composed of all U. S. flyers who have dodged destruction by parachute leaps from disabled planes. Parachutes are made of silk; silk comes from caterpillars...