Word: finn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson Schuesinen were only beaten out by ski teams from Dartmouth, McGill, and New Hampshire at the Dartmouth Carnival over the weekend in spite of the disqualification last Friday of Finn Ferner, the team's high hope...
...drive (see cut}. The former President welcomed the athletes as "ambassadors of the greatest sporting nation in the world," alluded rhapsodically but tactlessly to Thermopylae (where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans put up a stout fight against the Persian hordes, were massacred to a man). "Flying Finn" Nurmi, once world's champion distance runner, and his protege Maki, breaker of track records, including Nurmi's, expressed confidence in their country's ultimate victory. They are on leave from war service to raise money...
...Bespectacled, 24-year-old Charles Fenske: the Wanamaker Mile; in 4 min., 7.4 sec., second fastest indoor mile on record; outrunning Old Iron Legs Glenn Cunningham by three yards; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Among the 16,000 onlookers was famed Finn Paavo Nurmi (see p. 38), whose 4:12 mile on the same Garden boards set a world's record in 1925. Present world's record: Cunningham...
This morning Captain Winship, Tommy Thomas, Finn Ferner, and Del Ames will start for the Crimson in the down-hill race on Moose Mountain, the first of the four events in the big weekend for the ski team. The snow conditions are only fair, but snow will probably be imported by the Indians for the various events...
...Finn Ferner, the young Norwegian who unexpectedly won the best time in the informal slalom held by the Harvard club on Thorn Mountain in Jackson last Sunday, is Harvard's new find. Two weeks ago, he won several events at Mont Tremblant in Canada. Outstanding in slalom and cross country racing, he is expected to garner many points for the Crimson team in its third major meet of the year...