Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paced by Dick Porter and Royal El-fast, both Freshmen, the squad defeated one of the top-ranking of the 12 teams comprising the New England College Rifle League. In picking off its seventh win as against two setbacks, the Varsity moved up from fifth to second place is the League. Dave Knight and Bill Dunn, round out the quintet...
...Quakers' fire was thoroughly squelched last week by Columbia, 66 to 50, and Cornell, 42 to 37, Suffering from the loss of star center "Butch" Van Breda Kolff two weeks ago. Princeton's Tigers dropped three straight games and tumbled from an early first place tie with Columbia to fifth slot on the league ladder...
...fifth lap of the gruelling 440-yard distance, however, both Jerry German and Forbes Norris of the Crimson were the masters of the race, and then the meet, hitting the floats 12 laps later first and second. And with a comfortable 24 points to relax with, Coach Ulen could not be disturbed by the Columbia victory in the final 400 yard relay...
...Crimson skiers ended the two-day festival with 477 points--a scant three credits above the last place West Point aggregation. Middlebury nosed out McGill at the last minute to take second place, while New Hampshire's Wildcats and the University of Vermont's squad finished fourth and fifth, respectively...
Coach Bill Halsey's team made its best showing in the downhill racing events, where it placed fifth. The Crimson finished sixth in the slalom, downhill-and-slalom, and jump contests, and brought up the rear in the cross country and combined cross country and jump competitions...