Actually Mike it was about 1952, Coach Barton and Hugh Morrow tried to get all of us involved in Track and Field and Soccer....and remember all those intramural tag football teams with names like...well the only one I can remember is The Skunks...anyway they put in a Pole Vaulting pit right in back of the Ag building complete with fresh sawdust, a high jump bar and tried to help us learn to throw the discus. A few years earlier I can recall Robert Trussell winding around and throwing that thing what seem to me to be a country mile. Their success was short lived.
Horace, I wish y'all had left it there. Several kids over the last few years have wanted to try the pole vault but it is not something you can do without a lot of practice. Actually, they do not even have a track to practice on but use the front lawn of the school. Just not the same as running the curves on a real track. However, I think they have done a great job over the past few years in spite of not having practice facilities.