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Varsity high jumpers Jack Murphy and Hank Moore have reached 5 feet, 10 inches, but Villanova's Phil Reavis has cleared 6 feet, 10 inches. Similarly, Kip Smith, the Crimson's 13-foot pole vaulter, faces Don Bragg, a 15-foot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Underdog In IC4A Contest | 2/25/1956 | See Source »

...Pole vaulter Kip Smith salvaged some team satisfaction from the meet Monday, however, by clearing the bar at 13 feet for a first place in his event, ahead of Don Richards and Dick Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cohen Out for Season | 2/8/1956 | See Source »

McCurdy has a good 13-foot pole vaulter in Kip Smith, but his understudy, Don Richards, clears only 12 feet. In the high Jump, sophomore John Murphy has Jumped 5 ft. 8 in., but this is not quite good enough to win in a meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of Depth Faces Track Team in Opener With B.U. | 12/16/1955 | See Source »

...Angeles, officials of the Amateur Athletic Union studied reports that pole-vaulting Parson Bob Richards had received a Mercury and other gifts on the television program This Is Your Life, solemnly announced that the loot was legally presented not to Pole-Vaulter Richards, but to Parson Richards' First Brethren church "in the interests of furthering its service." His amateur status still intact, the Rev. Richards hopped 15 ft. 3¾ into the air at the Massachusetts Knights of Columbus Games, won the pole vault and set a new meet record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 24, 1955 | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...Ceylon, the Rev. Bob Richards, 28, consultant in Christian life activities at California's La Verne College, world's top pole vaulter and holder of the national A.A.U. decathlon title, was invited to address the Sunday school of the Methodist Church in Colombo. Suddenly the invitation was canceled. Reason: Bob, known as "the pole-vaulting padre," was found to have participated in Sunday sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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