Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen are weak in the high jump, broad jump, and pole vault. Avery of Andover is entered in the pole vault again this year and should score a first place for the Academy in that event...
Lack of material has handicapped the development of the Freshman team in the field events. Several events, notably the pole vault and the shot put, are undermanned with the present number of candidates
...Intercollegiate one-mile Freshman relay, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Boston College were the starters. At the beginning of the first lap, Dartmouth took the pole, keeping it until the end. In the battle for second place, the Crimson first-year men were the winners, coming in about 15 yards behind Dartmouth and five yeards ahead of Boston College...
...relay race with Holy Cross the University team was decisively beaten by the Purple runners. The opening leg found Captain A. H. O'Neil '28 gaining the first corner, from the pole on Hal Klumbach of Holy Cross. On the third lap Klumbach gained an eight yard advantage over O'Neil to hand the flag to Maher, who ran up a lead of 15 yards on C. M. Lauterhahn '30. F. E. Cummings '30 had an injured shoulder before the opening of the race, and found difficulty in holding his own with the Purple runner, Chemis...
Turning his attention to pole vaulting, the mentor considered the results of the past spring, when in one afternoon, 13 men had vaulted as high as 13 feet. "Sabin Carr holds the world's record, having cleared the bar at 14 feet. Now that Hoff has joined the professional ranks, there is little chance of the Yale track captain's losing his honors. Barnes, who forced Carr to his record with a vault of 13 feet nine inches, ought not to be very far behind the record-holder. The best men Europe can put against us are Dane...