Word: vault
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman track team opens its spring season tomorrow at Soldiers Field against Andover and Boston College and hopes for victory lie mainly with a strong group of sprinters and Captain Bob Mello, who won the pole vault, high jump, and broad jump against Yale this winter...
Prospects of jumping events are not very good. Dick Barwise has yet to come up to last year's promise in the high jump. Dave Best and Geick can clear 5 feet 8 inches. Best does only 11 feet in the pole, vault and potential 13-footer Bud Lockett hasn't been out for spring practice...
...Nobel Prizewinner, and therefore sufficiently a man of parts to do what a lot of long-suffering after-dinner speakers only tell their wives they wish they had done. Millikan rose with the air of a man who had been bound to a chair in a locked bank vault and said: "My definition of an educated person is one who can concentrate on one subject for more than two minutes. At this late hour I do not believe this audience would be able to follow the address I was prepared to give." *Then he sat down...
Dave Carter and Bill Geick will compete in the broad jump, facing defending champions Win Scott and Bill Rapp of Army. Geick and Dick Barwise are in the high jump, and Dave Best will carry Crimson hopes against a mediocre field in the pole vault...
...Pole vault--second, Lockett...