Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pole vault--P. Harwood, W. Lawrence, O. C. Torrey; high jump--P. Garland, G. Harrigan, G. Hauptfuhrer, G. O'Neill, D. B. Reed; broad jump--E. Garnsey, A. Green, T. Guyton, J. C. Hunt, H. Thayer; shot put--J. Fisher, P. Garland, W. Jackson, R. M. Miller, M. Shatuck, A. Wheeler; hammer throw--S. Felton, J. Fisher, J. Thorndike, P. Zeigler; discus throw--T. Cameron, S. Felton, J. Fisher, P. Garland, W. Jackson; javelin throw--J. Holbrook, E. Kaelber, F. Powers, D. Trimble, M. Von Saltza...
...Pole vault--Won by A. Lockett; second, W. Lawrence; tie for third between O. C. Torrey and F. Chen, Height...
Starting in 1893, the young groundskeeper watched from the sidelines as Harvard's progress in the pole vault began paralleling its academic growth--the latter under Eliot, Lowell, and finally Conant, who hadn't yet seen the light of day when Mike was babying his first track here out on Jarvis Field...
...days was the world's record, and in the 1905 Harvard-Yale meet, "we had to put boxes under the standards to allow Grant and Gilbert to tie for first place at 11 feet, 6 inches." A keen judge of vaulting ability, who claims that "without good form the pole vaulter can do nothing," Mike expects Pete Harwood to break the current college record of 13 feet, 11 3/4 inches this spring...
...usually-calm, blue eyes would blaze indignantly, though, if anybody tried to tell him how much sawdust was needed to best cushion the loam in the jumping and vaulting pits. He knew how much was needed, and for years he had charge of the pole vaulting pit at the big indoor invitational track meets in Boston Garden. He remembers every detail of Dutch Wamerdam's record-breaking hoist of 15 feet, 7 1/4 inches...