Word: vaulter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bruins are weak in the broad lump, sprints, and hurdles, and don't have a vaulter who can go higher than...
...Crimson should win this one with ease to stretch its season's record to 3-0. The team's only casualties are pole vaulter Ken Winters, sidelined with a groin injury, and Coach McCurdy, who will spend the weekend in Chicago to keep an eye on the NCAA convention...
...host of other impressive sophomores, allow for the expected improvement from last year's regulars, and you have an unbeatable combination--even without that pole vaulter...
...allergic to bluegrass in Kentucky. Fred Hansen's destiny seems more secure, if for no other reason than the fact that it has taken him years to get much of anywhere at all. A virtual unknown when he showed up for the big spring meets, Pole Vaulter Hansen, 23, startled track experts by leaping 17 ft. 1 in. in Houston last month, breaking John Pennel's world record by ¼ in. Week after in San Diego, Hansen did it again, soaring over the bar at 17 ft. 2 in., and beating Pennel himself. Last week he handily...
...barefoot Bikila Abebe sprints through torchlit Roman streets to win the 26-mile marathon and Ethiopia's first Olympic gold medal; U.S. Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson consolingly embraces his close friend and runner-up, Taiwan's C. K. Yang. Poignant drama erupts when a Russian pole vaulter disastrously breaks his ankle. There is comedy, too, as a narrator dryly remarks of Britain's winning, waddling roadwalker: "One cannot honestly say that he presents an impeccable silhouette...