Word: dashmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring, the 100 and 220 were two of the weakest spots in the team's armor. But this year, Mikkola has a plethora of good dashmen. They will all run the 100 and 220 tomorrow afternoon, and since Boston College has some strong sprinters, the 100 and 220 will be run off in heats...
...Spivak go 220 Yards under full sail? That will be one of the big questions which may be answered tomorrow. He did well indoors this winter and like the rest of the current crop of dashmen, he has been loafing through 23-second 220's this week...
Harvard's team was at a disadvantage in that they had no place to practice either the sprints or the hurdles. The practice track has no straightaway for the dashmen, and the hurdlers have had no real opportunity to practice adequately since summer. The encouraging performance, however, in the distances promises a strong nucleus for the next meets...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola's inexperienced Crimson squad is still a question mark as far as the result of the annual contest is concerned. With very green dashmen, and equally grass-colored quarter and half milers, the main burden of upholding the Crimson end of the meet would seem, at the present time, to rest on the shoulders of Johnny Bunker, Dick Pfister, and Mike Ford in the field events, and Bill Palson, Captain Bob Houghton, and Don MacKinnon in the races...
...sprinter Zeimetz will meet Ives and Pirnie in the century, which promises to be the season's super-thriller. Not only is Zeimetz himself enough to watch but this will mark the first meeting of the two Harvard dashmen in the same heat...