Word: gibson
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Coach Charlie Gibson's boys were happy, though somewhat pessimistic, yesterday as they prepared to leave for Hanover. Their qualifying for the nationals is quite an achievement...
First Harvard is the only team in the meet that doesn't have a practice hill adjacent to its campus. Second, the skiers do not receive any financial support from the University; the team's expenses are currently being paid by Gibson, who hopes to be reimbursed eventually by interested alumni. Gibson likes to refer to his squad as the only "amateur" team in the Nationals...
...face of such awesome opposition, Gibson's strategy calls for all-out individual skiing, even at the expense of a high team score. He is asking members of his alpine squad to ski at top speed on both runs of the slalom and downhill, risking a fall in hopes of an exceptionally low time. He will also conserve the strength of his cross-country specialists by not entering them in the jump, possibly jeopardizing the team score in that event...
Middlebury dominated the downhill, sweeping into the first two places. The 1 1/4 mile course on Berlin Mountain plunged 1400 feet, and was described by Crimson coach Charlie Gibson as the "fastest, toughest, and best course we've had all year." Senior Kim Chaffee finished tenth, leading the alpine squad to a seventh place finish in the event...
...order to hold on to fourth place overall, the team will have to perform much better tomorrow in the 40 metre jump than it has in the past. Gibson expects his jumpers to finish in sixth place, which would result in a third-place finish in the nordic combined, a combination of the four best scores in cross country and the jump