Word: vaulter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brooke is probably the best fullback playing today. His football career began on the Swarthmore College team, where, however, he was never remarkable. He has played on the var-, sity eleven for three years. He is a member of the track team, being a shot putter and a pole vaulter. At Swarthmore he was captain of the baseball and football teams, and won the tennis championship for three years. He weighs 174 pounds, is 5 feet 9 inches high and 20 years...
...Hoyt, the pole vaulter is running the high hurdles. He has not tried this branch of athletics since he left school...
...Yale indoor games take place tomorrow. Hoyt, the pole vaulter, is the only Harvard entry. On March 30 the New England Indoor Championship meeting will be held at Worcester, in the Skating Rink. The events, which are to be all scratch, are the same as last year except that the 300 yards dash will be omitted, and the 40 yards dash substituted for the 75 yards dash...
...Princeton third The bicycle race is the most doubtful of all the events. Glenney of Yale and Coates of the U. of P. Have made the best records, but Pratt, Davis and Holmes are expected to win some points for Harvard. The U. of P. has a fine pole vaulter in Buckholtz who will probably win, with Cartwright of Yale second an the third point lying between Towne of Williams and Sherwin and Wheelwright...
...well. But it is in field events that Yale's chances are brighest. Sheldon, Lyman, Ladd, Gillespie, Rowe and Dickson will try the high and broad jumps. Hickok, Coxe, Lyman, Brown and Sheldon are relied upon for their share of points in the hammer and shot. Cartwright the pole vaulter is still at Yale and has a close competitor in C. P. Rice...