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...half-mile. They expected old Amos Alonzo Stagg, now coaching football at the College of the Pacific, to officiate as head referee at the meet he inaugurated in Chicago 16 years ago. In particular, the 15,000 track fans had come expecting to see Southern California's Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows tie for an all-time record pole-vault of 15 ft. or over. In only the last instance was the audience disappointed...
Earle Elmer Meadows, 24, and William Healy Sefton, 22, pole-vaulted separately before they entered U.S.C. in 1933. Beginning at 10, Earle practiced with an old rug cane and clothesline strung up in his Little Rock front yard. Anxious to spur his son's aerial career, Father Meadows, a cloth manufacturer, offered him a nickel for every inch above 5 ft. that he could make. In 1932 when he was a high-school senior at Fort Worth, Earle cleared 13 ft. to establish a Texas scholastic record, 6½ in. less than the national interscholastic record Bill Sefton...
Once united, Sefton and Meadows learned from each other. The two started vaulting to equal heights, soon were breaking records in partnership. Meadows did 13 ft. 11½ in. by the end of freshman year, Sefton an even 14 ft. With almost monotonous regularity they tied for national and intercollegiate titles during the next two years. Meadows took the Olympic title alone last year, but twice this spring the Trojan "twins" have vaulted to identical heights to smash the accepted world's record of 14 ft. 6½ in. held by Oregon's George Varoff. At the Stanford...
...Sefton and Meadows learned their art from Southern California's Coach Dean Cromwell, who declares that an expert vaulter's greatest single asset is a correct psychological outlook. Both run a 99-ft. stretch before the takeoff, grasp the pole at 12 ft. 2 in. for the ascension. At the crest of their flight they are poised almost upside down, flip their bodies over the bar with a quick kick. Meadows is light (165 lb.) and fleet, depends upon speed along the runway. Sefton is taller (6 ft. 3 in.) and huskier (180 lb.), counts more upon brute...
Only on the field are the Trojan twain. Meadows works as a part-time janitor, plays excellent tennis for relaxation, is studying to be a physical education instructor. Inclined to be retiring, he is "unofficially" engaged to Marguerite Caswell, Western Women's sprint champion. More sociable, Sefton belongs to Phi Sigma Kappa, was cited this year as U.S.C.'s model all-round senior. At this week's intersectional meet between the Pacific Coast Conference and Big Ten track teams Earle Meadows and Bill Sefton will pole-vault as college teammates for the last time...