Word: vaulter
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...that he broke his favorite fiber glass pole during practice last March. At that point, he was an unknown; the highest he had ever vaulted was a middling 15 ft. 9 in. But on March 23, using a seemingly identical fiber glass pole that he borrowed from a rival vaulter (Rice University's Fred Hansen), Pennel soared 16 ft. 3 in. and broke the world record. He is still using that pole. Last week, at the U.S. v. Great Britain track meet in London, Pennel cleared the crossbar at 16 ft. 10¼ in., bettering his own most recent...
...Pole vaulter Brian Sternberg, 20, always refused to take himself seriously. A sophomore at the University of Washington, Sternberg was genuinely surprised when he was invited to compete at the Penn Relays last April. "They paid $325 for my airplane ticket," he said, "and I don't know how I could be worth that much to anybody." Then he vaulted to a new world record of 16 ft. 5 in. "That record won't last 24 hours," he said, and even when he raised the record to 16 ft. 8 in. last month in Compton, Calif., he still...
...team will be facing a British squad that contains a number of familiar faces. The captain of the Oxford-Cambridge squad will be Tom Blodgett '61, hurdler, pole vaulter, and discus thrower, who led the Cambridge track team to an easy win over Oxford this year...
Harvard track coach Bill McCurdy said in an interview that he had never heard of a vaulter being impaled on a pole, but that the Athletic Department did not want to take chances. If the FCAS recommends that the track team stop using the fiberglass poles, McCurdy added, his vaulters would require time to readjust to metal poles...
William Hill, a freshman pole vaulter, won the All Harvard Cross Country Handicap with a time of 20:14:5. He was followed by Jim Holt who covered the three and one half mile coures in 20:15. Holt and Hill, were among the few novices to beat coach Bill McCurdy's cross country team, running under a five minute handicap. Eddie Meehan set a new record for the event with a time...