Word: vaulters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vaulter Win Pettingell and jumper Bob Haydock trailed Elis Badman and Harding, the Blue high jumper barely clearing 6 feet 3 inches. Harding missed his three tries to set a record at 14 feet...
...only events that Yale managed to take against Jack Moakley's boys Saturday were the high jump, the broad jump, the pole vault and the 35 pound weight. The Elis will be right in the running in all of these events on Saturday, with Bill Handing, the star pole vaulter, being pretty sure of taking his event. The star Eli's principal opposition will come from the Crimson's Win Pettingell, who, while at Exeter, once beat Harding, then an Andover star. But since that time the Yale boy has stepped out and he did 13' 9" at the Millrose...
Sportswriters were hard put to explain Varoff's performance, which boosted the accepted world's record up 2 1/8 in. Born 23 years ago of Russian parents on the Island of Maui in Hawaii, he won no great notice as a San Francisco schoolboy-vaulter, none at all as a University of Oregon freshman. Flunked from college, he became a janitor in San Francisco, entered the semi-final Olympic tryouts in Los Angeles last fortnight, for the first time in his life cleared 14 ft. Fearful of losing his janitor's job, George Varoff had needed much...
...Vaulter Varoff, however, had no monopoly on record-breaking. In tip-top shape for the final Olympic tryout this week, and running on perhaps the fastest track in the U. S., six other stars made mincemeat of existing times. Outstanding performers...
...cover tuition and residence in the college dormitories. To manage his roundup, President Valentine engaged Frederick Lawson Hovde, a fellow Rhodes Scholar, who will hold an appointment in the chemistry department, spend most of his time sounding preparatory school masters for material, interviewing scholarship candidates. An ardent pole-vaulter, All-Conference quarterback when he went to University of Minnesota in 1925-29, Frederick Hovde was the third U. S. citizen to win his "full blue" by playing rugby for Oxford against Cambridge. The second U. S. "full blue" is President Valentine. Before Frederick Hovde goes to Rochester from his present...