Word: jumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dashes and the hurdles it is Joel Cohen, who is also the team's best broad jumper. Behind him in the 40-yard hurdles is Jim Polese, while Bob Hahn is rated second in the 40-yard dash...
...world rocked to word that a relatively little (5 ft. 9 in.) Texan at the University of Illinois, using a new technique, had cleared 7 ft. The trouble with the news, from the standpoint of the orthodox: 1) instead of using the conventional running take-off from one foot, Jumper Dick Browning takes off from both feet; 2) instead of rolling over the bar on his side, he goes over in a backward somersault. To make matters worse, Browning is not a trackman at all, but a member of the Illinois tumbling squad...
...somersaults under the admiring eye of Illinois Gymnastics Coach Charley Pond recently when both coach and pupil were struck with the same idea: Browning was clearing prodigious heights. They set up a standard high-jump crossbar, and Browning cleared 6 ft. 6 in., a good height for any high jumper. A bit later, he tumbled himself over the 7-ft. mark. His technique: a running, springing aerial twist into a backward handspring, which supplies momentum for a final backward double somersault up & over the bar. Some sportswriters began calling Browning "the potential track sensation of the century...
Because of a foot injury, Bob Rittenburg star hurdler, broad jumper, and all around point-getter, will probably be unable to challenge Harrison Dillard's six-year grip in the 45-yard high hurdles in the Knights of Columbus Annual Track Meet tomorrow night...
...jumper does not usually reach his peak until the age of 15 (ten years after most race horses have retired). The U.S.'s best jumper in recent years was Democrat, an Army remount horse, who was retired, finally, at 20, still in top form...