Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pole. So small (5 ft. 6 in., 138 lbs.) that he could barely see over the hood of his Dean Van Lines Hawk, Italian-born Mario Andretti, 26, averaged 165.8 m.p.h. to sew up the pole position. Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1965 winner, came next with a clocking of 164.1 m.p.h. The once reliable Offenhauser engine, winner of 18 out of the last 19 500s, but consigned to oblivion after Ford swept the first four places last year, made its comeback-in the hands of Parnelli Jones, who clocked 162.4 m.p.h. A. J. Foyt was not ready...
Lynch and Pardee are injured and the varsity, which took third place in the IC4A indoor meet this winter, will be represented by just four competitors -- sprinter. Wayne Anderson, pole vaulter Steve Schoonover, and distance runners Jim Baker and Dave Allen...
Schoonover, for instance, improved his pole vault performance by a foot during the Crimson's last two meets. Until the Heptagonal championships two weeks ago, he hadn't gone above 13-6 outdoors. But he cleared 14 feet to take second place in the Heps, and then broke through to a University record of 14.6 1/2 in Saturday's Army meet. The left-handed sophomore credited his improvement to the warmer weather...
Both Andersen and Schoonover face strong fields. There are no 16-foot pole vaulters in the field, but a Villanova sophomore, Vince Bizzarro, has cleared 15-9, and five other vaulters have cleared 15 feet...
...Maryland-Villanova duel should be as close as any the IC4A's have seen. The Terps have strength in the field events with Frank Costello, the only 7-foot high jumper in the field, three 15-foot pole vaulters, two javelin throwers who have hit 225 feet, and two 23-foot broad jumpers. They also have Lee in the sprints...