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Previous to his coming to Dartmouth, Schniebs had had considerable success in coaching the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Harvard Mountaineering Club. He hailed from the Black Forest region in Germany, and he was a famous skier of the Arlberg School. He had a lot of new ideas about skiing methods, and he proceeded at once to put them into effect. His Arlberg methods changed entirely the technique of skiing at Hanover...
...might be noted that the Arlberg School differs primarily from other schools in that a crouching rather than upright position is assumed, and from the three fundamental crouching positions which reduce the center of gravity of the skier, it is easy to swing into turns and stops...
...under the ideal snow conditions of the 1930-31 winter. Instead of fulfilling their physical training requirements (called "rec" in Dartmouth parlance) in the gymnasium, the undergraduates flocked to the surrounding hills, and under the guidance of Schniebs and three assistant coaches they proceeded to turn their attention to Arlberg methods...