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Viewed from any angle, the Crimson's spring track season cannot be called anything but great. Jaakko Mikkola's charges competed in five meets and ran away with all but one of them. And Yale was three times included in their list of victims...
Bill Jackson, one of Jaakko Mikkola's standbys in the discus and the shot put, has been a steady performer all spring, even though the competition provided by Doc Blanchard and Ralph Davis of West Point was a little too much for him last week...
Four in a row does not sound like a very long streak when stacked up against the Red Sox fifteen, but if the track team can reach that number this afternoon at Hanover, N. H., it will make Jaakko Mikkola a very happy...
...There are no its or buts about it," says Jaakko Mikkola, Harvard track coach, "we just have to win that meet with Yale Saturday. That's the way I feel and I'm sure that's the way the team feels too. Although feeling is high in Cambridge that Yale has as much chance of winning, the fiftieth dual meet between the two rivals, this afternoon at 2:30 in the Stadium, as Harvard does of dropping intercollegiate football. Mikkola is making no concessions to his own outfit...
Handicapped by adverse weather of the past month, without the benefit of even one time trial, Coach Jaakko Mikkola's 1946 track squad will attempt to begin its season with a flying start this afternoon as it pits its peed against Tufts and Connecticut, in a meet to be held in Harvard Stadium at 2:30 o'clock. The Jayvee Squad will battle Andover at Andover...