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...meet progressed, the Crimson steel proved true as Dan Sullivan broke a three-way tie for first place in the high-jump by winning on fewer misses, and mountain-climber Geoff Stiles left his Princeton Sherpa guides behind with a 14-ft.,-6-in. ascent in the pole vault...
...captain Todd Hooks high-stepped to a third-place in the 60-yd. hurdles, Dan Sullivan flopped for fourth in the high jump, and Geoff Stiles grabbed a third in the pole vault for Harvard's remaining points...
...Crimson field-event entrants were a little healthier and, after their performance, a little happier than the runners. Chris Queen snared the shot-put crown with a 52 ft. 8 3/4 in. toss, while Geoff Stiles shuttled through space in the pole vault for his first victory against Princeton...
...wasn't the Snake River Canyon this time, but Daredevil Evel Knievel came a cropper anyway. CBS-TV had signed him up for a live 90-minute mini-Jaws show: he was to vault his Harley over a 64-ft.-wide tub full of "killer sharks." On a trial run before the show, Knievel made it over the sharks but skidded into a retaining wall in Chicago's International Amphitheater and for the 13th time in his frangible career broke some bones: the right forearm and the left collarbone (his 55th and 56th breaks). After putting...
Geoff Stiles, with a winning 15-ft. leap in the pole vault, and Hasan Kayali, with a 45-ft. 3 3/4-in. victory in the triple jump, continued the hot field event work...