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...Dive--Buttle (P), Briggs, Weir, Points...
...Dive--Briggs (H), Gates (B), Weir (H). Points...
...Norway. Back at Lake Placid this week, Norway unveiled a new batch of jumpers for the prime show of winter sport: the individual jumping championships. Forty contestants in all sped down the runway, soared off the lip of the tower and jackknifed forward in the long dive into space. When it was all over, Norway had done it again; six of the first eight places had gone to Norwegians. The champ: a 21-year-old Norwegian farmer, Hans Björnstad, who made jumps of 224 and 223 ft. Sixth place went to former U.S. Amateur Champion Artie Devlin...
...November of 1948 a former champion Big Ten heavyweight named Butch Jordan starled teaching the arm drag and the Oklahoma, the leg dive and the crucifix to interested Harvard wrestlers. Jordan had an adequate team that year--he had some good wrestlers and some who were inexperienced but looked as if they might come along given a season under Jordan. This year, these men have shown vast improvement; throw in a couple of holdovers from last season, an outstanding sophomore and, no doubt about it, Jordan has the makings of a very strong wrestling team...
...began going out the hatch. They had to dive down toward the floor, crawl into the canvas funnel and up through the hatch. "We formed a queue as though we were waiting for a bus," said one survivor. The trip to the surface took 40 seconds. After he got outside, Engine Room Artificer Frank Mossman was snagged by a piece of deck rigging. "I was caught on it for about a minute, but it seemed an eternity," he said...