Education
Samse attended Indiana University where he was reportedly introduced to the pole vault by coach James H. Horne.
Samse attended Indiana University where he was reportedly introduced to the pole vault by coach James H. Horne.
Samse was acknowledged for having set a world record in the pole vault at a Western Intercollegiate Conference meet in Evanston, Illinois on June 2, 1906. His vault of 12" 4 7/8" beat the mark of 12" 3" set three days earlier in New York by Alfred Carlton Gilbert of Yale University. In 2009, Indiana University put on the first ever LeRoy Samse Invitational, an informal meeting where vaulters are required to jump on non-bending poles similar to Samse"son
The meet record is still considered to be Samse"s personal record of 12" 4 7/8".