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...York University, which claims to be the world's largest,* is not a colossus in sport. But year in & out N.Y.U. has consistently produced great track athletes. Most extraordinary has been its succession of superb milers: Frank Nordeil, Leslie MacMitchell and this season's freshman sensation, Frank Dixon. The greatest miler of them all, Glenn Cunningham, did his best running when he was a Ph.D. student at N.Y.U...
Also back are Tom Holyoke, 24-foot-six-inch broad jumper, troubled by a leg ailment this winter but now rounding into form; Tim Coggeshall, two-miler and cross-country runner who competed in the IC4A meet this winter; and Ward Slingerland, a 1:58 half-miler who is now working on the pole vault as well...
From last year's Freshman squad, tabbed as one of the best in the College's history, come sprinter Fred Carr, quarter-miler Max Pincus, half-milers Wally Clubb and Frank Mason, miler Dick Bryan, two miler Archio Lyon, high jumper Alex Rogerson, and Willo Fisher (winner of the 35-pound weight event in the IC4A two weeks ago) and gridder Sid Smith in the weights...
Promising Freshmen include Paul Laskin, who has turned in a 23-second 220, miler Mark Tuttle, who participated in the Heptagonal cross country meet, miler Matt Dick, broad jumper Bob Schneider, and high jumper Wally Flynn, also a gridiron operative of note...
...plight of track coach Jaakko Mikkola is by far the most grievous. Ted Withington, Sophomore quarter-miler who was expected to be a leading member of the mile relay team which Mikkola is taking to New York's Millrose Games this Saturday will enter the Air Corps this week. With Moe Young on the shelf because of a pulled muscle, the quartet representing the Crimson is thus seriously crippled...