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...among Finnish athletes. Although he confines his efforts at the University chiefly to the development of weight throwers, Coach Mikkola is also experienced in the training of runners. He coached the entire Finnish track team which placed second in the 1924 Olympics, and he was also largely responsible for Nurmi's sensational rise. He began to coach Nurmi's in 1918 and continued to work with him for a few years until the world's champion distance runner was competent to train himself...
...Wednesday will be track night. Captain W. L. Tibbetts '26, will introduce Coach Farrell, who will explain the track pictures as they are projected. Pictures of the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge meet in the Stadium last summer have been procured. Negotiations are under way to get pictures of Paavo Nurmi, the Finnish star, who attempted to break the world's record for the mile run on the Stadium cinders...
...well have superseded baseball in popular favor purely through being more spectacular. The movement to engage all schoolboys and college men in some form of athletics, the wide publicity given to the Olympic Games of 1920 and 1924 (after the hiatus 1912-1920) and to Paavo ("Flying Finn") Nurmi when he visited the U. S. after those Games, may well have been factors making track and field sports momentarily more popular than baseball. The crowded condition of many city playgrounds was cited as a contributing cause for the decline. The great numbers of new country clubs might have been cited...
...value of the Finnish bath as a conditioning medium was not appreciated by American athletes until Paavo Nurmi visited this country last winter. During his series of record-breaking performances on American tracks, Nurmi made use of Finnish baths in New York and Chicago, and when he came to the Harvard Stadium to make his great bid for the American mile record held by Norman Tabor, he visited the baths at Quincy, accompanied by Coach Mikkola...
Syracuse, which captured the honors in 1922 and 1923, is Harvard's most dangerous opponent in the coming event with such runners as Bell, who made a remarkable showing last year when he won the Freshman race; Gottlieb, conqueror of Nurmi in a handicap test last winter; and James Loucks. Pittsburgh, with only Corbett and Howell of its last year's victorious five available, appears to have little chance...