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...Coach Jaako Mikkola, whose teams have lost to Yale only three times since 1924, is optimistic, feeling that "they ought to do well at New York." The event will be held over a new course, and the Crimson is at a disadvantage in not having raced over it before...
...shores of Lake Carnegie and back across the Polo Field at Princeton this Friday in their objective meets with the Elis and the Tigers, they should be concluding the best Harvard dual meet season in several years; for the team this fall is one worthy of the coaching of Jaako Mikkola, who has been turning out great distance runners for so long it seems forever...
...Princeton are good, for the Elis have been winning consistently, and the Tigers, while losing to the strong Army and Navy teams, are a potentially powerful group. But Harvard is different. On paper, from last year's records, the Crimson should be weak. Their undefeated record shows how Jaako has built that team...
...captain--and he is "a wonderful captain," in Jaako's estimation--is a Brayton, and in Harvard running of recent years there is no better name. Last year there was Sherman, with his 50 second quarters, and Dick and his good half-miles. Roswell is the last of the line, and Jaako says he is typical of his family, "for they're all great fightters and great workers, and all have built themselves into good runners...
Distance events are fairly well taken care of by cross-country men, and the sprinters and jumpers are average or better for a fall turnout. Competition in the hurdles is a little thin, but Jaako is counting on Yardling football and soccer players to make up the deficit...