Word: stanfords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notable absentees from the Randalls Island meet were three erstwhile I. C. 4-A winners, Stanford, University of Southern California and University of California, which last week competed, with seven other teams, in their own Pacific Coast Conference championships. At last month's Stanford-Southern California dual meet, Southern California's Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows pole-vaulted to a record 14 ft. 8½ in. At Los Angeles last week, Sefton and Meadows duplicated the feat by both vaulting 14 ft. 11 in., a full 4½ inches higher than George Varoffs accepted world's record...
Engineer Strauss & staff declare that the bridge could stand a 'quake twice as bad as the 1906 one, plus a hurricane, without harm. But there are others who claim differently. Chief of these is Dr. Bailey Willis, an 80-year-old Stanford geology professor with a handsome white beard. Two years ago a diver, working on the preliminary survey for the Bridge's great south pier 1,000 ft. from shore came up to declare that the rock was "as soft as plum pudding." Dr. Willis devoted months to proving that the rock on which the pier would...
...final session of the conference will be on Saturday morning, June 19. "Self Regulation of Business vs. Government Control" and "Contemporary Conditions--A Problem for Business Men" are the speeches which will be heard at this time, the first by J. Hugh Jackson, Dean of the Stanford Business School, and the second by Philip Cabot '94, professor of Business Administration...
...meet's history, competitors at Fresno broke eleven world's records, tied three. Last week, they broke two more. Elroy Robinson, Merced, Calif, schoolteacher, ran 1,000 yards in 2 min., 9.7 sec.-to break the record made by Luigi Beccali of Italy in 1933. Stanford's 880-yd. relay team (James Kneubuhl, Ray Malott, Stanley Hiserman, Jack Weierhauser) scooted around the track in 1 min., 25 sec.-.8 sec. faster than the mark set by a University of Southern California team in 1927. Runner Weierhauser's tape-breaking for the world's record...
Southern California's track team: a dual meet with Stanford, 74½-to-56½, in which Southern California's two star pole-vaulters, Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows, tied for a new world's record of 14 ft. 8½ in.; at Palo Alto...