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...Jaakko Mikkola's Varsity track team, which last spring set itself up as king of the Ivy League mountain by winning the nonagonals, now finds itself in the embarrassing position of having to bluff its way past some considerably more muscular contenders to the throne. It's not going to be easy...
Yesterday's New England Championship meet was an unofficial contest for the Crimson. Coach Jaakko Mikkola entered his field event men in the weight throwing, pole vaulting, and broad jumping in Briggs Cage during the afternoon, but not in the night running events at the Cambridge Armory...
...mile relay event tonight, the Crimson will be more in its own class. A quartet composed of Harvey Thayer. Al Ruby, Dave Hamblett, and Jim Wheeler--the best one-mile combine in the Varsity camp at present--will race Holy Cross and Brown. Jaakko will be surprised if they go below...
There are many ways of saying "Happy Birthday." Thirty members of the Varsity track team said it with CARE last night when they handed Coach Mikkola a certificate designating that five food packages be sent in his name to needy families in Finland. Jaakko has been coaching here for the past 26 years...
...surprise party started at the Varsity Club and went by auto cavalcade to the Mikkola abode in nearby Belmont, where the team brought Jaakko hustling out onto his front steps with a "Happy Birthday" chant...