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Larger than the Briggs Cage board oval, the Tufts indoor cinder track is 220 yards to the lap. Included in the dual meet will be the 50, 300, 600, 1000, mile and a half, two mile relay, pole-vault, and shot...
According to Coach Mikkola, the team will work out on the Freshman cinder track as long as weather permits, shifting inside to the Briggs Cage boards as Winter approaches. Jaako considers the Briggs Cage oval one of the fastest board tracks in the country...
With Tuttle handicapped from the loss of his shoe, it was up to teammate Charlie Atwell to snare first place. Trailing over most of the distance, Atwell moved up as the leaders swung back into the river bank cinder path, and in a thrilling stretch duel, collared the tiring Lacedonia, and went on to win out by one second...
Some 30 hours before H-hour General Eisenhower made the great decision. The moon, the tide, the carefully calculated weather forecasts were favorable. At night, while his staff got out the orders, the General walked alone on the crunching cinder path near his headquarters tent. Deep within himself he wrestled with the feeling he called "boiling over." His fingers rubbed the lucky coins he had rubbed before the invasions of North Africa and Sicily. Now began the taut moments that come to every commander after the battle order has been given, and there is no turning back...
...Royal Blue's cinder team is not on a par with the Exeter squad Harvard met and narrowly defeated last week. Andover was the victim of a trouncing at the hands of Tufts two weeks ago; the Mikkolamen had little trouble with the Jumbos, so the schoolboys should be easy pickings...