Word: vaulter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pole vaulter Schoonover and freshman Colburn established themselves as national stars with their performances. Schoonover broke meet, stadium, and Harvard records with a jump of 15 ft. 8 in. The stocky junior failed at three attempts to clear the hero-mark...
...Pole vaulter Steve Schoonover broke the GBC and Briggs Field records with a 14 ft. 6 in. effort. The mile relay team of Bob Cook, Dave McKelvey, Jeff Huvelle, and Frank Snowden eclipsed the track mark, running...
Harvard should find scoring a bit easier today against Dartmouth. The Indians have a fifteen foot pole vaulter in Rhodes Scholar Henry Wagensail, a 6' 8" high jumper, Chris Ulke, and some depth in the burbles Ulke should breeze, but Wagensail will have to battle Crimson ace Steve Schoonover, and the Big Green hurdlers will have to face streaking Frank Haggerty...
Last year, when the Crimson finished behind Maryland and Villanova, all its points were scored on two seconds and two thirds. That was enough. This year, only vaulter Steve Schoonover is sure of scoring points...
Nobody seems to know exactly who thought up Section 20(e)-and nobody knows exactly why. "The whole idea in pole vaulting is to get over the bar and not knock it off," says Dan Ferris, former national secretary of the A.A.U. "If that's what the vaulter does, the jump should count." Seagren naturally agrees. At Los Angeles, he says, "right after I let go of the pole, I could see it was going to fall forward. As I came down I tried to kick it back. I actually touched it with my foot, but I couldn...