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...injuries began when number one nordic event competitor, Captain Hans Vitzthum suffered a dislocated shoulder before the Eastern Divisional championship meet. Despite his loss, the team took second in the meet, thus clinching a place in the Senior Divisional Championships in March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Ski Team to Compete In McGill's Carnival Today | 2/19/1954 | See Source »

...week after losing Vitzthum, the team lost its number one alpine man, Harry Gardner, and nordic competitors Chris Ingraham and Fred Churchill and finished sixth in a field of seven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Ski Team to Compete In McGill's Carnival Today | 2/19/1954 | See Source »

Versatile Pete Churchill, Fred's brother, will enter both the nordic and the alpine combined events. The nordic event consists of the jump and the cross country, and the alpine comprises the slalom and the downhill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Ski Team to Compete In McGill's Carnival Today | 2/19/1954 | See Source »

...meet consists of six events, the jump, cross country, slalom, and downhill, and the two combined events, the alpine and nordic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Ski Team to Compete In McGill's Carnival Today | 2/19/1954 | See Source »

Last week, school principals waited worriedly for reports of discrimination or childish cruelty. But as the first days passed, there was only silence. Not one child was singled out for teasing because of his color; not one teacher refused to work in mixed classes; not one Nordic mother took her own child out of school in protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Little Hans | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

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