1931: SU student builds and rides (briefly) a rocket sled on Oneida Lake
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
Posted Mar 14, 2021
In 1958, during the midst of the “Space Race,” Post-Standard reporter Dave O’Brien went out to Oneida Lake, near South Bay and the Syracuse Yacht and Country Club, to ask residents if they remembered something which had happened there 27 years before.
Did they recall 21-year-old Syracuse University student Harry Bull and his rocket sled in March 1931?
Nearly all did, some chuckling.
One local resident remembered Bull as “that crazy college student who nearly got himself killed on Oneida Lake in 1931.”
But he was much more than that.