Word: dartmouth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With an evident advantage over their opponents in nine of the 14 events in the dual meet at Hanover Saturday, the University track forces should let the Dartmouth runners down to their fourth defeat in as many seasons. The hope for another Crimson victory lies in its superior power in the 880, mile and two-mile runs, in the broad jump and pole vault, and in the weight events...
...Hanoverians will enter the races and field events Saturday afternoon determined to humble the Crimson track forces in repayment for the two defeats recently suffered by the Big Green at the hands of the Harvard runners: A year ago, in the dual meet, the Dartmouth team was let down 72 1-3 to 62 1-3 by the Crimson trackmen, and in the Triangular meet held on the Arena boards in February, Harvard came through with 12 more points than the Green team could amass, taking first place with 44 1-3 points, to 39 1-3 for Cornell...
...days ago the Dartmouth Athletic Council decided to eliminate all the differences between the major and the minor sports, as the Athletic Council of the University of Illinois did earlier in the year. From henceforth the "D" is to be awarded to the members of all teams with no classification as to major or minor. The only difference will lie in the size of the letters used...
...enters the small field has a far greater chance of making the team and hence earning a letter equivalent to the major. If it were not for the qualification of the size, this disadvantage would be such as to make the move an exceedingly unwise one. But Dartmouth distinguishes the value of the sport by giving the football man a seven inch "D", baseball, track, hockey, and basketball men a six inch "D", and the men of other sports a five inch "D". Thus, although all the apparent differentiation is removed, the sports are still divided into three definite classes...
...Brown aggregation has not made a particularly good showing this year, having lost recently to Dartmouth and the Boston Lacrosse Club, and the odds this afternoon are clearly in favor of the home team...