Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...downhill man on the team and sixth in the individual standings in the Easterns last Saturday, will be backed up by an able group of Freshmen and Sophomores. Jerry Genn, with a long and varied ski background, is the leading slalom man, and also competes in jumping and downhill events. Larry Griffin of Seattle, the only four-event man on the team, has been consistently entered in downhill, slalom, cross-country, and jumping...
...final and most spectacular event of the year is slated for April, when possible resumption of the famous Inferno Race, discontinued during the war, may give the Crimson racers a chance to compete individually over a break-neck four-mile course which drops some 4000 feet from the summit of Mt. Washington to Pinkham Notch. The Harvard-Dartmouth Slalom Races, scheduled for Tuckerman's Ravine, may not be held unless the plans for the Inferno Race fall through, as the two groups will help manage the race at Pinkham...
Wrestling finals in the lightweight classes were completed yesterday, with Howie Schless of Winthrop downing Lowell's Kenneth Chun 5 to 0 in the 121-pound event, while the 136-pound crown went to Whitney Frye of Lowell House by default...
...Humanite approved the entry only of French athletes of the proper pink political complexion. At the field itself 10,006 soggy sports fans, who had paid 10 francs each, groused at the political speeches. There was nothing about the races themselves to cheer them up. In the five-kilometer event, half of the huge starting field of 600 dropped out before the end. Many of those remaining were a full lap behind. At the finish: 100 runners crossed the line in such an inextricable melee that nobody could tell...
...event of the day was a 2,500-meter race for "women aces," featuring 40 French entries and seven Russians. The Russian entries fell into two types: the gaunt, harassed and rangy (like Champion Irene Zaitseva), and those built like truck drivers (two of them were, in fact, truck drivers...