Word: vaults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimson coach Bill McCurdy will pin his hopes on the 35-1b, weight throw, the pole vault, the mile, the 1000-yard run, and the mile and two mile relays. In the -1b, weight throw, Art Doten could lead a possible Harvard sweep, but B.U. co-captain Chris Beasley may finish near...
Engineer co-captain Don Morrison could pose a threat in the broad jump, the pole vault, and the dash. The other Tech co-captain, Jim Withbroe, might capture the 600, since McCurdy may choose to go with distance men Mark Mullin, Bob Knapp, and Ed Hamlin...
...pole vault, the U.S.'s outspoken Don ("Tarzan'') Bragg, 25, had made such an impression on the Italian press that one paper called him "the handsomest athlete in Rome and perhaps the vainest." Holder of the world record at 15 ft. 9¼ in., Bragg caused a brief flurry when he flubbed his first try at the qualifying height of 14 ft. 5¼ in. But when the competition settled down, Bragg forgot his nerves, his gimpy right knee, and the fact that he had to hoist a heavyweight's body...
...Kuznetsov, by profession a high school science teacher, has neither the size nor the natural talent of Johnson. To make the most of what he has, Kuznetsov has worked laboriously on his technique in each decathlon event since 1953, now exceeds Johnson in the pole vault and 1,500 meters, compares well with him in the broad jump, high jump and discus. Kuznetsov is proudly grooming his five-year-old son with the same thoroughness : "When we wake up in the morning, Vitya jumps on my bed and I hold him up balanced with one foot on my palm...
...Rome into the tensest in history. "It's only going to take one bad event to bump a guy right out of a gold medal," says Coach Drake. "A bad start in the sprints, a puff of wind at the wrong time in the high jump or pole vault, a foul in the shotput or discus, a broken stride in the hurdles, and poof, it could be all over for one of these boys." Under such pressure, Johnson's greatest asset will be his bedrock of self-reliance, a quality that keeps him from having few really intimate...