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...spare time Radcliffe is all-state football end, the best high-school kicker in Georgia, a guard on the all-state basketball team, and a champion pole vaulter. Radcliffe expects to sign a big league baseball contract when he graduates in June, but says he has no favorite among the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians. Says his coach: "He's still one of the boys. They kid around with him just the same and tussle with him. When he needs rolling, we roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nature Boy | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Lowell's squash team dropped a close 3 to 2 match to Winthrop yesterday, as Bellboy Bill Lawrence, better known as a Varsity pole vaulter, remained undefeated in intramural play. Leverett toppled Adams 3 to 2 in another racquets encounter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritan Five Ties For League Lead | 3/3/1948 | See Source »

Sophomore vaulter Lockett nailed the other three points in the Crimson's total by tying for second place at 13 feet with George Coleman of Villanova and John Eustis of Yale. Eustis was only one of many Eli point-getters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Takes Eleventh, Felton Second in IC4A Meet | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Pole-vaulter Bud Lockett and weight stylist Sam Felton rolled the big seven, although for the second time in a week, large Sam had to play second fiddle in his specialty, the 35-pound weight throw. Nine days ago, Bob Bennett beat him out for the National AAU title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Takes Eleventh, Felton Second in IC4A Meet | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...world's record, and in the 1905 Harvard-Yale meet, "we had to put boxes under the standards to allow Grant and Gilbert to tie for first place at 11 feet, 6 inches." A keen judge of vaulting ability, who claims that "without good form the pole vaulter can do nothing," Mike expects Pete Harwood to break the current college record of 13 feet, 11 3/4 inches this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mike Holly, Retired Groundskeeper, Drew First Harvard Paycheck in '93 | 4/11/1947 | See Source »

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