Word: finnish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mikkola gives the history and present status of the javelin throw, an event which first came to the fore in modern times among Finnish athletes. Although he confines his efforts at the University chiefly to the development of weight throwers, Coach Mikkola is also experienced in the training of runners. He coached the entire Finnish track team which placed second in the 1924 Olympics, and he was also largely responsible for Nurmi's sensational rise. He began to coach Nurmi's in 1918 and continued to work with him for a few years until the world's champion distance runner...
...Leonard Cline, like Paulus his protagonist, has defied the laws and conventions of the commonplace and has created an original and powerful novel tinged with the color of Finnish legends and folklore...
...track night. Captain W. L. Tibbetts '26, will introduce Coach Farrell, who will explain the track pictures as they are projected. Pictures of the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge meet in the Stadium last summer have been procured. Negotiations are under way to get pictures of Paavo Nurmi, the Finnish star, who attempted to break the world's record for the mile run on the Stadium cinders...
Javelin throwers today will have as coach Urho Peltonen, a Finnish athlete who took second place in the javelin event with a throw of 213 feet at the Olympic games of 1920, and is now visiting Jaakka Mikola, coach of the weight men and of cross-country running...
...value of the Finnish bath as a conditioning medium was not appreciated by American athletes until Paavo Nurmi visited this country last winter. During his series of record-breaking performances on American tracks, Nurmi made use of Finnish baths in New York and Chicago, and when he came to the Harvard Stadium to make his great bid for the American mile record held by Norman Tabor, he visited the baths at Quincy, accompanied by Coach Mikkola...