Word: leap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rice University Star Fred Hansen: a new world record in the pole vault, with a leap of 17 ft. 1 in. (the old record: 17 ft. ¾ in., by Miami's John Pennel), at a track meet in Houston. > Oregon's Dyrol Burleson: a one-step victory over Loyola of Chicago's Tom O'Hara in the mile run at the Compton, Calif., Relays. Burleson was clocked in 3 min. 57.4 sec., and the next seven finishers all cracked 4 min. too. Wichita's Jim Ryun, 17, came in eighth...
Other Crimson scoring in the field came in the broad jump, where Aggrey Awori took fifth place with a 23' 5" leap, 11 1/2" short of the winning jump by Maryland's Mike Cole. The lone point was a slight disappointment for McCurdy & Co., since Awori and Ohiri both had qualified for the six-man final...
...Crimson's other first-place hopefuls are junior John Bakkensen, University record-holder in the discus, captain-elect Art Croasdale, hammer throw champion in the Penn Relays, and high jumping sophomore Chris Pardee, winner of that event in the indoor IC4A's with a Harvard-record leap...
...Jump! Jump! screamed onlookers as a troubled youth threatened to leap from a twelfth-story hotel ledge in Albany, N.Y. "Jump! Jump! cried another mob last week as a jobless man set to dive off Manhattan's Brooklyn Bridge. Both would-be suicides were eventually talked down to safety, but not before hundreds of witnesses gaily exchanged bets on their fate whilte yowling such taunts as "What's the matter, ya yellow...
...hurdler in a class with Tony Lynch, no two-miler who can challenge Walt Hewlett on a good (though the Elis' Ross o Dell has caught Hewlett on bad days before). If Yale's pole vaulters and javelin men are fairly sure winners there is no Bulldog who can leap with Chris Ohiri, a consistent 23-footer in the broad jump and a threat to go right out of the pit in the hop, step and jump. The close events should be the shot put, where Chuck Merecin and Art Croasdale renew an old rivalry, the discus, where Harvard...