Word: poled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University's representatives in the eighth annual indoor carnival held under the auspices of the Meadowbrook Club at Philadelphia Saturday night won the mile intercollegiate relay, took third place in the mile handicap run, and a fourth place in the pole vault. In the relay race the team won the intercollegiate championship against Holy Cross, Princeton, Cornell, and Pennsylvania in the fast time of three minutes 26 and 3-5 seconds. This time is within one and one-fifth seconds of the world's record, and is one-fifth second slower than the time made by the team...
...Pole vault, handicap.--Won by H. McGrath, Mercury A. C. (2 ft. 1 in.), 13 ft. 1 in.; second, S. J. Needs, unattached (2 ft. 6 in.), 13 ft. 1 in.; third, R. Ecclem, Amster Club, (3 ft.), 12 ft, 9 in.; fourth, C. S. Babbitt...
...greatest strength of the team will undoubtedly lie in the field events. In the pole vault the team will have a brilliant performer in R. H. Harwood, who is easily the most promising man the University has had for some time in this event. Harwood, who will be the team's mainstay in this department, is the National Interscholastic champion in the pole vault, and has a record of over 12 feet in competition. Of the other pole vaulters F. D. Johnson has been showing considerable promise, and should be vaulting over 11 feet in this spring's meets...
...field events the team is noticeably weak. Lack of strength in this department lost the Yale meet last year, and the graduation of G. G. Haydock '16 has left the pole vault without one good vaulter, and incidentally, the team without a single man who has won his "H" in a field event. The 1919 track squad was also noticeably weak in the hammer-throw, shot put and pole vault, but it has sent men up to the University squad who, with training, should develop into able performers. They are C. A. Clark '19 in the shot...
...Pole vault.--C. S. Babbitt...