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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...
From little technicalities, great frustrations grow. Look at Bob Seagren, the handsome young (20) University of Southern California sophomore and pole vaulter extraordinary. As extraordinary, that is, as a technicality in the rules will permit him to be. Seagren does hold the world indoor record of 17 ft. 2 in. But he has equaled and beaten that mark in competition this winter-and neither of those leaps will ever be noted in the record book. Last month, Bob soared 17 ft. 2 in.; two weeks ago, he went 17 ft. 31 in. -clearing the crossbar with a good...
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...
Lynch and Pardee are injured and the varsity, which took third place in the IC4A indoor meet this winter, will be represented by just four competitors -- sprinter. Wayne Anderson, pole vaulter Steve Schoonover, and distance runners Jim Baker and Dave Allen...