Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Competition will be keen with many Norwegians entered, but Francis who is probably the best jumper in the college, judging from last year's record, can be counted on to do well, although this is his first competition of the season...
...Hall will probably be outjumped by the time the field has gone far beyond the six-foot mark. He will have to meet such acknowledged champions as Al Threadgill, Spitz, and Johnson, all of whom are good for a six-six jump nearly any evening. A fourth classy jumper is Osborne, who was a champion in years gone by and who can still get quite a way from the ground...
...beaten. Major event of the 1936 Winter Olympics will be the ski-jump, for which grandstands have been built to seat a crowd of 80,000. Practicing at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, on the jump which has a swastika placed below the take-off so that a good jumper lands beyond it, Norway's 21-year-old Birger Ruud. Olympic champion in 1932, jumped 269 ft., won an impromptu tournament. Ablest all-round skier on the U. S. team, Richard Durrance, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for practice ahead of his confrères, placed 18th - an achievement more creditable than...
Last Christmas Brooks decided he would take up jumping so that by February he had developed into a good jumper and at the Dartmouth Carnival took twelfth place out of a field of over...
Hall prepared at Brookline High and was one of the eight members of his class elected to Phi Beta Kappa last year. His career as an undergraduate includes such varied activity as membership on the student council, editor of the CRIMSON, and an outstanding high jumper on the track squad. Hall's field of concentration is Government...