Word: vaulters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...classic Freshman team which defeated Yale the worst in the history of Harvard-Yale track. Probation, however, has developed into a definite cancer this fall. Several good men will be prevented from competing at all this year unless midyears remove the bonds. Nat Heard in the shot, pole vaulter Win Pettingell, sprinter Charlle Cretzmeyer, and quarter-miler Joe Donnelly have fallen victim to June examinations...
...scholarship holders in the past most prominent are Victory H. Harding '31 and Stanton Whitney, Jr. '34, Varsity football players, and Oscar Sutermeister '33, the pole-vaulter...
Sefton and Meadows learned their art from Southern California's Coach Dean Cromwell, who declares that an expert vaulter's greatest single asset is a correct psychological outlook. Both run a 99-ft. stretch before the takeoff, grasp the pole at 12 ft. 2 in. for the ascension. At the crest of their flight they are poised almost upside down, flip their bodies over the bar with a quick kick. Meadows is light (165 lb.) and fleet, depends upon speed along the runway. Sefton is taller (6 ft. 3 in.) and huskier (180 lb.), counts more upon brute...
...July 10 the invaders will have one of their strongest teams on hand. Featured on it are A. G. K. Brown, of Cambridge, a ranking Olympic runner up to 880 yards. Also there are E. B. Tisdale, of Oxford, an outstanding miller, F. R. Webster, a 13-foot pole vaulter, and Ali Irfan, a 49-foot shot putter...
Unable to play because of a bad log, Captain Hayden Channing, Jr. '37 will nevertheless accompany the Crimson group as director. Peter H. Knapp '37, last year's veteran forward and captain of the Junior Varsity football team last fall, and Oscar Sutermeister '32, outstanding pole-vaulter four years ago, will be the mainstays of the forward line...