Word: vaults
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pole vault, broad and high jump...
...less than eight weeks off, and the need of developing a strong, well-balanced team if the Elis are not to be winners again this year, a large number of additional candidates for both field and running events is expected out tomorrow. Especially are men needed for the pole vault and the high and broad jumps...
Practice yesterday consisted of a short jog for the runners and a light workout for the weight and pole vault men. There will be no broad jumping until the ground softens up; last night the high jumpers practised in the Gymnasium. Until the frost gets out of the ground, the cinder track will not be used, and the runners will work on the track around the outside of the Stadium...
...track spirit, but it will be a gloomy, chill dawn if the track squad reporting for the first practice today is not larger than any in the last four years. Two men reporting for the hammer-throw, three for the high jump, and one for the pole-vault will only snuff out the hopeful flame recently kindled. The best of systems must have men behind it. Today is the time for undergraduates to show the committees who have been working for the most efficient plan of direction that the College appreciates their efforts and desires a winning team this...
...field events, the department in which the University squad is fundamentally weak, the Elis are unusually strong In the pole vault, Heyl and Nagel can both clear 12 feet. Rodman and Grant are the best of the high jumpers, and the latter has done over 22 feet in the broad jump. Braden, the football star, can toss the weight 45 feet and is the logical winner of the shot put against both the University and Princeton. Of the field events, Yale is weakest in the hammer-throw