Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more pounds of bombs per trip because of 100-octane, than if 87-octane (yesterday's superfuel) were used." U.S. bombers with 100-octane have the power to lift with a shorter run, can thus operate from smaller fields, be more quickly dispersed in the event of enemy bombing. Fighters also are airborne faster, have added power for altitude and acrobatics...
...that is not all. Pote Garland, as close to a one-man track team as Harvard has known in years, enters the mountain troops, and will not be around this semester. The giant Sophomore, an end on the Crimson eleven, was a four-event winner in last spring's Yale meet, and local experts touted him as a future Al Blozis. Garland had done better than 49 feet in the shot...
Aquatically, Harvard loses two stars via the sheepskin route. Captain Bill Drucker, who could always be counted on for one victory in the backstroke event and who always supplied a healthy lead in the medley event, graduates, as does Bus Curwen, breast stroker, who strokes and captains the Crimson crew in his spare time. Sprinter John Eusden, a Marine-to-be, will be around for a while...
Harvard's return to sports action will come a little slowly this week. The first event on the winter schedule is a hockey game between the Crimson junior varsity and Rindge Tech, listed for Thursday evening. On Saturday the cagers play Boston University in the Indoor Athletic Building, the track team journeys to New York, and the hockey team invades Hanover for the return game with Dartmouth...
Eusden took the 50 yard event in 25 seconds fit for one new mark, with Ossle Morton second and Perry Stearns third. His record-breaking time in the 100 was 56.3, and he was again followed by Morton and Stearns. Big John's third victory came in the 150 yard individual medley race, a combination breast stroke, back stroke, free style event, with Bob Aaron second...