Word: vaulter
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...jumpers have depth as well as class. Sophomore Jeff Huvelle holds the University record for the 600-yard run at 1:10.5, and sophomore Trey Burns is the 1000-yard record-holder at 2:10.4. Last year's team couldn't boast a single 14-ft., plus pole vaulter, but this year's squad boasts two, Junior Dave Bell hit 14-ft. in the Heps, while Schoonover cleared 14 ft., 4 in. Sprinter Wayne Anderson has run the 60-yard dash...
...five months Pole Vaulter John Pennel, 25, has traveled-from São Paulo, Brazil, to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, to Los Angeles, to Boston, to Baltimore-all with the notion of be coming the first man ever to vault 17 ft. indoors. Along the way he competed in 16 meets, won his event in 13 of them, set two new world records (16 ft. 9½-in. and 16 ft. 10 in.). In Boston, he soared cleanly over the bar at 17 ft. i in., only to dislodge it with his arm on the way down. In Los Angeles, he cleared...
Maryland, ending Villanova's four-year hold on the indoor crown, won the meet easily behind first-place finishes by high-jumper Frank Costello 6 ft. 10 in.), broad-jumper Ed Marks (24-10 3-4), pole-vaulter Tom Gagner (15-4), and shot-putter Ernie Hearon...
...which makes Pole Vaulter John Pennel the season's one genuinely exciting track performer. So far, Pennel has competed in eleven indoor meets, won in ten, been voted the outstanding athlete in three. Last month, at the Los Angeles Invitational meet, he soared over the bar at 16 ft. 9½ in., to break the world record set in 1963 by Finland's Pentti Nikula. Not bad for a 25-year-old wine salesman who has not prac ticed in more than a year and knows that each time he jumps may be his last...
Other Harvardmen were chasing records too, but none of them came close. Pole vaulter Steve Schoonover, competing with a heavily bandaged thigh, failed to clear 14 ft. after making 13 ft., 6 in. look easy. John Pennel won the event...