Word: vault
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot broad jumper in James Grant, while the best Yale's Roger Miller has done is 22 feet, 11 inches. The other Crimson freshman, Pat Liles, will be the other broad jumper. In the pole vault, Yale provided Jim Beckman, whose 13 feet, 6 inches, is seven inches better than his nearest English rival...
...tomorrow's events, which begin at 6 p.m., Harpel and John DuMoulin will compete in the hammer; Jim Doty, shotput; freshman Dan DiBona in the high jump; Pat Liles in the broad jump and pole vault; Henry Wente in the broad jump; and Lee Barnes in the 100. Wharton will enter the 440 and Benjamin the three-mile, while freshman Ed Martin will be the lone Crimson entry in the mile...
...Competing for the last time as a high-school student, Jim Brewer, 18, of Phoenix, Ariz, made the most of his springy new Fiberglas vaulting pole, pushed himself over the bar at 15 ft. 1½ in. Trying for 15 ft. 1½ in., Brewer knocked down not only the bar but both standards as well, quit for the afternoon, satisfied with his record as the first U.S. schoolboy ever to pole vault...
...freshman meet, Pat Liles and Ed Martin scored the only Yardling wins, as the Eli freshmen won, 90-50. Liles tied for first in the pole vault, took seconds in both the 220 and the broad jump, and third in the 100, for 11 points. Martin won the mile in 4:23 to break a meet record. He later placed third in the two mile...
...final analysis, it was a weakness in the broad jump and the pole vault which lost the meet for the varsity, as Yale took first and second in both...