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Hoping to win the cross-country race after taking a fifth in the Dartmouth Carnival. Graham Taylor's skiers will find favored Williams and strong Bowdoin and Maine their toughest opponents. Captain John Houser, John Hart, Tim Wise, and Neil Dixon will lead the Crimson. Victorious in last week's Dublin meet, the freshman skiers face the Putney School...
Cross country ace John Hart will race against a field of top-notch skiers for the Class "B" Championships in Berlin, New Hampshire. Although Captain John Houser will start in the downhill and slalom, the Crimson is likely to suffer in these events from the loss of "Whitey" Black, who will be throwing the hammer at Yale...
Although Captain John Houser and Tim Wise finished 18th in the Saturday down-hill and jumping, respectively, after Friday's cross-country and slalom events, the Crimson's low placing came as no surprise to ski team officials. As Coach Graham Taylor pointed out: "We're competing against the finest team in the Mortheast, Dartmouth, and the best team in the West, Denver. We don't have the facilities of these teams, and can't hope to beat them...
Later in the afternoon, John Houser finished twentieth in the slalom. Downhill and jumping contests will be held today...
...Houser is making no predictions about this contest until he has seen some of his skiers on the snow. He points out though, that Williams, which won the Junior Division last year, now has a professional coach, and that Yale, which placed one above Harvard, at second, will go to Aspen (partly at Y.A.A. expense) for ten days of intensive ski schooling...