Word: vaulters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
Pete Harwood, the Crimson's ace pole vaulter, finished second in his department with a hoist of 13 feet, while Bill Lawrence's 12.6 jump earned him third place. Both Varsity sprinters, Harvey Thayer and Bob Toppan, failed to place against a classy field of 50-yard dash contestants, although Thayer reached the semi-finals, and the Harvard two-mile relay team finished third in a field...
Pacing the Mikkola forces were two first place winners; Pete Harwood, outstanding New England pole vaulter, who successfully defended the crown he won last year with a vault of 12 feet, 6 inches, and Bill Jackson, whose 47 feet, 5 5/3 inch shot put garnered that event. Jackson also took third place in the discus throw, won by Dartmouth's Sam Felton...
Owen Torrey, also a polo vaulter, has been performing pretty much in Harwood's shadow all spring. Several times he has grabbed second-he was tied for second in the Heptagonals-but he has never been able to top his adroit team-mate...