Word: vaults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith, Yale's Rick Wilmer, and Princeton's Ross Odell should make the mile the day's closest race. Tigers Wayne Morse and Mike Mitchell should take first and second ahead of George Winters in the pole vault...
Winters's meet record pole vault of 13 ft, 5 in. was the highest of his own Harvard career and earned the loudest applause of the evening from the Briggs Cage spectators. Winters had the bar moved all the way up to 13 ft., 9 in. but on his first try at the height the pole snapped in half during his ascent. Winters tumbled safely into the foam cushioning but chose not to attempt any more vaults...
Chris Pardee can ignore his competition and concentrate on the yardstick again tonight in the high jump, and he may well rewrite his own Harvard record of 6 ft., 9 in. Ken Winters will again need to improve on his best vault to place high in a large field of pole vaulters...
...coaches were also strongly impressed with the development of the field events. The pole vault, the shot, and the weight events have improved surprisingly according to Meehan...
Crimson captain Art Croasdale won the weight throw with a strong 59 ft., 7 1/4 in. effort and also took the shot with a not-so-strong 51 ft., 11 1/2 in. toss. Ken Winters cleared 13 ft, to win the pole vault and just brushed off the bar in two attempts...