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Except for a few new faces in the javelin competition, the squad expects to go with most of the old workhorses. Once again the fieldmen will be looking to pick up a slew of points. ICCA and all Ivy selections Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace and Mel Embree will be up to their old jumping tricks, taking the Ivies by storm. Opposing coaches will have their hands filled trying to figure out where Vanderpool-Wallace will strike next this spring. Stowell expects the durable Bahaman to fill in at long jump triple jump, and sprint medley, with an occasional high jump stint...
Leon Sharpe and Ahmed Kayali will team up with Vanderpool-Wallace in the triple jump and Bill Wendell joins VPW and Sharpe in the long jump pits...
...Both Vanderpool-Wallace and Mel Embree will be hard-pressed to duplicate their strong finishings at the IC4As March 2. At that meet Embree leaped to a third place in the high jump and Vanderpool-Wallace notched second in the long jump. The two top Harvard competitors are in excellent position to write themselves into spring track record annuals. Embree is just an inch shy of the 7 ft. mark, and Vanderpool-Wallace will have to fly eight inches longer to break a longstanding Harvard mark of 25 ft. 3 in. in the long jump...
...Pittsburgh's Bill Rea hadn't been able to hitch a ride to Princeton's Jadwin Gym with an assistant coach from LaSalle University, Harvard's Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace would be the sole possessor of first place in the long jump competion of the IC4A championships last weekend...
...legendary Vanderpool-Wallace had leaped to 24 ft. 5 1/2 in. and looked like a sure winner when the Pitt senior came through with a 25 ft. 7 in. jump, breaking the oldest record in NCAA annals. Rea, seven-time titlist in the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletes of America championships, said Saturday that he had not had too much competition in the past two years, but VPW's best jump has spurred...