Word: championing
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Swimming coach Harold Ulen and World Figue Skating Champion Richard Button '52 were awarded special major letters yesterday by the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 announced last night...
...Londos, 49, who first claimed the world's heavyweight wrestling title back in 1930, figured the phony old game was really going to the dogs: "There are too many freaks . . . too many men who rely on hairdos and perfume." Said he: "I am still champion ... I have decided to wrestle again because I want to help clean out the sport...
Michaels has two good reasons for making his claim--Jack McIntyre, Hanover record-holder in the 100-yard freestyle, and Frank Bruch, the Green's champion in the 200-yard breast stroke. This pair is the reason why Dartmouth is slightly favored to win tonight...
...also wind up first in the dash. George Wade, another Yale man, took the IC4-A mile in 4:13, which will be pretty hard for anyone to beat today, although Princeton's Ronald Wittreich ought to press him. Dartmouth looks good for the cross country, with the 1948 champion, Stan Waterman, and Penn's Jeff Kirk, a member of last year's Olympic team, will probably set the pace over the hurdles...
Last winter, the varsity finished fourth behind Army, Yale, and Columbia. Since then, the addition of Brown has boosted Hep membership to ten colleges. All ten are endowed with at least one or two talented athletes. Cornell's sophomore Bob Mealey, the national AAU 1000 champion, will probably win his event tomorrow; Penn has a 7:56 two-mile relay team, Olympic hurdler Jeff Kirk, and two-miler Dick Hart; Brown high jumper Dick Phillips generally gets up ever six-six; Al Holland, of Columbia, has done 1:15.3 in the 600; Princeton's Ronald Wittreich will probably press...