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...Cage record was set and another tied in this final dual meet of the season. Junior Jeff Huvelle's 1:12.4 in the 600 beat the old 1:12.5 mark, and Steve Schoonover's 14' 10" leap in the pole vault tied the record...
From little technicalities, great frustrations grow. Look at Bob Seagren, the handsome young (20) University of Southern California sophomore and pole vaulter extraordinary. As extraordinary, that is, as a technicality in the rules will permit him to be. Seagren does hold the world indoor record of 17 ft. 2 in. But he has equaled and beaten that mark in competition this winter-and neither of those leaps will ever be noted in the record book. Last month, Bob soared 17 ft. 2 in.; two weeks ago, he went 17 ft. 31 in. -clearing the crossbar with a good...
Nobody seems to know exactly who thought up Section 20(e)-and nobody knows exactly why. "The whole idea in pole vaulting is to get over the bar and not knock it off," says Dan Ferris, former national secretary of the A.A.U. "If that's what the vaulter does, the jump should count." Seagren naturally agrees. At Los Angeles, he says, "right after I let go of the pole, I could see it was going to fall forward. As I came down I tried to kick it back. I actually touched it with my foot, but I couldn...
Such contortions, of course, might not be necessary if Bob Seagren could remember to flick the pole back with his thumb at the moment of release-as does Competitor John Fennel. "But that's instinctive with me," admits Pennel. "I just do it automatically. Bob hasn't been vaulting as long as I have." The fiber-glass pole apparently is not a factor in Seagren's troubles, but one problem may be the stickum with which Bob, like most vaulters, coats his hands to help him grip the pole better on his approach. Still, Seagren insists that...
Steve Schoonover's record 15'-6 1/2" pole vault highlighted the Harvard track team's 93-16 rout of Dartmouth at Hanover, N.H., yesterday. Jim Baker's field house record in the two-mile run and Ron Wilson's winning weight throw of 57'-6" also stood out as the Crimson thinclads won 11 of 13 events...