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...Franconia, New Hampshire cross country and slalom races will lift the lid on the eastern racing season Saturday and Sunday with 50 contestants from eastern colleges expected in the langlauf, 100, in the slalom, and 30 inches of snow on Franconia's Cannon Mountain. The seven-mile cross country race is slated for Saturday in Franconia Notch while the slalom, a 1.8 mile affair down the mountain trail, will be held Sunday...
...Placid, N.Y. was deep and powdery last week, and the temperature was a shivery 3° above zero. At one-minute intervals, the 39 best college skiers in the East struck out crosscountry on their narrow racing skis. Tiny, ski-minded St. Lawrence University won Lake Placid's Langlauf (its skiers finished first & second) and won the tournament as well...
...first day, red-clad McGill skiers zoomed down Moose Mountain at a breakneck 50 m.p.h. in skiing's most treacherous event, the downhill. They trailed behind Malcolm McLane, Dartmouth's crosscountry and downhill specialist. But in the grueling eight-mile langlauf, McGill sprang a surprise: powerful Karre Olsen, late of the Canadian Navy...
Brown, of Williams, who pulled a surprise first place in the langlauf last weekend, will have a sizable task tomorrow if he expects to beat such stellar runners as Jay Dinsmore and Jake Nunemacher of Dartmouth; the Crimson's entries, including Del Ames and Finn Ferner, will make them push hard...
Captain Finn Ferner leads the list of men entered in the downhill, with Bungle King, Tom Winship, and Del Ames making up the foursome. King, Ferner, Ames, and a Freshman, Duncan Reed, will run in the slalom race. Henry Bigelow is the only Harvard representative in the langlauf. The jump, which will be held on the Dartmouth hill at Hanover, will see Ames, Winship, and Bigelow competing for the Crimson. The latter event will probably be held on Sunday morning...