Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against the Indians, the Bulldogs swept the shotput, and won five other events. But Dick Pfister and Johnny Shattuck have looked well recently, and should give the Blue a hard contest. Perhaps the best Crimson event will be the pole vault, where Mike Ford has been in first place consistently this season...
...Crimson Yardling track team will play host this afternoon to four private school squads, all from around greater Beston, in an informal practice affair at Soldiers Field. The meet, which starts at 2 o'clock, will feature every event from the pole vault to the 1,000 yard run, and will not be officially scored. However, times will be taken...
Before 14,281 excited people in Boston Garden Saturday night, William J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, climbed a shaky ladder to the imposing height of 15 feet 7 1/4 inches and took the measurement that made official Cornelius Warmerdam's record-breaking pole vault in the feature event of the 53rd annual B. A. A. games...
...Cornelius Warmerdam, 28-year-old San Francisco schoolteacher: the pole vault of the Millrose Games, first big track meet of the indoor season; clearing the bar at 15 ft. ⅜ in.; a new world's indoor high; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Outdoors, he has cleared 15 ft. 5¾ in., highest man has ever vaulted...
Dick Pfister's first in the shot put was a creditable showing, but Johnny Shattuck was apparently nervous, and only got a third. Mike Ford's tie for first with Steve Brooks, and Al Bates of Princeton in the pole vault was no particular surprise, but Ted Bauer and Johnny Bunker's first in the high-jump was good...