Word: pole-vault
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Strongest event at the moment appears to the pole-vault, where the Crimson has a handful of good men headed by Pete Harwood. Confined to limited practice on the hard-surfaced, pitless, Briggs Cage floor during the recent indoor season, Harwood was still undefeated...
Coach Mikkola reports a large turnout in the running events, and through time trials he is getting an idea of which distances his runners are best suited for. In the field events, though, he has only Jeff Tootel in the shot put and Pete Harwood in the pole-vault...
Larger than the Briggs Cage board oval, the Tufts indoor cinder track is 220 yards to the lap. Included in the dual meet will be the 50, 300, 600, 1000, mile and a half, two mile relay, pole-vault, and shot...
...Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire. His father, a 1920 Harvard man and U.S. Olympic pole-vaulter, started Pete vaulting with an old birch pole in the fifth grade at Concord, Mass. By the time Harwood had reached the eighth grade, he was clearing 8 ft., 6 in., although at the time his real ambition was baseball. It wasn't until his junior year at Exeter that Harwood discarded everything else and concentrated on the pole-vault, finishing the season with a jump...
Steve Madey will probably be vying with Tom Lussen of Yale in the pole-vault. Lussen topped the timber at 12 feet, 6 inches at the Mill rose games. Steve was right up with him through 12 feet, but his pole broke when he was on the verge of adding the extra half foot...