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Posted on March 22, 2022June 16, 2024 by Becca Peter

Women’s Pole Vaulting in 1917

“Girls and Athletics” was published in 1917, and it included instructions on the pole vault!

Women were not prohibited from pole vaulting until AAU took over women’s track and field in the early 1920s.

You can read this book here: https://archive.org/details/girlsathleticsgi00morg/
or here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56134/56134-h/56134-h.htm

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