Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Mueller '11 and J. Wheelwright '10 won second and third respectively in the high jump, and J. P. Long '11 and J. L. Barr '10 won second and third places in the shot-put. There will be handicap competitions in the broad jump and pole-vault in the baseball cage this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Men may enter on the field...
...Pole-vault--Won by J. A. King; R. Murray and L. C. Torrey tied for second. Torrey won jump-off. Height...
Field Events. 4.00-High jump. 4.00-Putting 16-1b. shot. 4.00-Pole-vault. 4.20-Running broad jump. 4.20-16-1b. hammer-throw...
...brief summary of the material already developed shows the team to be fairly strong in the hurdles, the middle distances, and the shot-put, high-jump and pole-vault. There are a few sprinters and broad-jumpers. A victory over Yale or a creditable showing in the intercollegiate meet can hardly be hoped for unless more and better men are developed in the dashes, the distances, and the hammer-throw. A great deal of Yale's victory and Harvard's success in the field events this year was due to the improvement in the material already at hand by means...
...enable the Olympic Committee to choose those who will compete in the Olympic games in London next month, two world's records were broken, one equalled, two Olympic marks bettered and one equalled. A. C. Gilbert of Yale did 12 feet, 7 3-4 inches in the pole-vault, thus bettering Dray's former world's record of 12 feet, 6 1-2 inches. In the competition for the discus throw, free style, A. K. Dearborn, the former Wesleyan weight thrower and New England intercollegiate record holder for the discus throw, best Martin J. Sheridan's former world's record...