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...fact was that astonished young (28) Concertmaster Alfred Bruening caught a flying baton in the face. The mystery: Did the baton just slip out of Halasz's hand, as Halasz claimed, or did he hurl it, straight and true as a javelin, as the outraged concertmaster afterward charged...
Ravreby, who hurled the javelin with the track team at the time of spring practice, injured his hip early in the fall, but did not seem to be seriously slowed. Last spring the vacancy was filled pretty well by junior Hank Rate, an aggressive player who has developed fast since his third-string freshman days. As last year, Rate will see considerable defensive action, at least. Starting '54 freshman Harvey Popell has also presented a tall and talented target in practice. Senior Don Cass, another letterman, was held back by injuries for most...
Ravreby, who hurled the javelin with the track team at the time of spring practice, injured his hip early in the fall, but did not seem to be seriously slowed. Last spring the vacancy was filled pretty well by junior Hank Rate, an aggressive player who has developed fast since his third-string freshman days. As last year, Rate will see considerable defensive action, at least. Starting '54 freshman Harvey Popell has also presented a tall and talented target in practice. Senior Don Cass, another letterman, was held back by injuries for most...
...usual thorn in the Crimson's side. Another annual athletic truism is that Harvard's track teams improve considerably in the spring. Perhaps this is because of an increase of weight events in the warm weather version of the sport. Small, quiet Coach Jaakko Mikkola, a former Olympics javelin star, is a master at tutoring young and strong but untrained men in hurling the javelin, discuss, hammer, and shot...
Mikkola's entries have been cut in half, as ten squad members must remain in Cambridge for the draft test tomorrow. Weight competitors will have trials this afternoon. Fred Ravreby, Crimson javelin entry, will let his mark today stand while he returns for the exam...