Word: coached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard, with traditional foresight, cornered the young mechanical engineer first and shortly thereafter he was signing his first Crimson contract. Now, 26 years later, he is still turning out winners. Actually, Coach Mikkola's Olympic experiences didn't end with the 1920 championships. In 1924 he took a brief "leave of absence" to coach the Finnish team for the Paris contests...
...this time with a total of 166 points. Paave Nurmi, just beginning to dominate the headlines, paced the Finns by obliterating Olympic records in the 1500 and 5000 meters. Following this success, Jaakko was married at the Finnish Legation at Paris and subsequently returned to Harvard as cross country coach and assistant track coach...
...Crimson coach's international reputation stems mostly from his "form technique," his ability to take mediocre athletes and build them up into dependable point-getters; not that Harvard lacks outstanding material. Coach Mikkola, who has looked a few men over in his years here, claims that "only indifference prevents more track starts from developing at Harvard...
...lists James Reed '29. One bright afternoon in the autumn of 1928 Jaakko saw what looked to him like a wonderful distance prespect loping down past the Stadium, waving, of all things, a lacrosse stick. This, of course, was a mistake and it didn't take the Crimson track coach long to convince the erstwhile stickman that his destiny was track not lacrosse. Reed eventually captured the IC4A cross country title and in winning the IC4A outdoor two-mile established a new Harvard record of 9 minutes 22 seconds--a mark which still stands...
Nineteen Varsity players, Coach Adolph Samborski, Manager Tom Connolly, and a trainer will begin the begin by bus on Monday morning...