HALL OF HONOR
Bill Pump was unheralded when entering Colgate, but went immediately to work perfecting his event - the high jump. Four years of effort produced four letters and the national indoor high jump championship in 1929 - the first national championship in track for a Colgate athlete in 25 years. Not satisfied holding Colgate’s high jump record, Pump proceeded to break Colgate’s pole vault record at the Penn Relays. Later he was a finalist in the Eastern Olympic trials at Yankee Stadium, where he missed qualification by two inches in the hop-step-jump event (now called the triple jump) - an event he had never competed in.
