Word: paavo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following 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...
...Idea itself. He found that little Tatterbreeches of the fifth grade and gawky Longpants of first-year high school no longer aim to be Ty Cobbs and Walter Johnsons when they grow up. Their aspirations, in order of prevalence, are to Red Grangeship, fame as a basketball player and Paavo Nurmidom. Baseball comes fourth...
...football and basketball may well have superseded baseball in popular favor purely through being more spectacular.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...
...Boys; 23 to 26, Piper Heidsick; 27, 28, 31 to 34, The Ups and Downers; 29, Great Scot; 35, 37, M. T. Hope; 36; Betty Bronson; 38, G. Silver; 39, The Would-Be-Goods; 40, Joseph Ward; 41 Hal Winston; 42, Centaur; 43, O. Henry (group of two); 44, Paavo Ritola; 45, John Doe; 46, Joe Dokes; 47, Deus faxit; 48, Oliver Joannin; 49, William Peaiso Lowell; 51, Montgomery Ward; 52, Red Mange; 55, Andy and Min 3rd; 56, She and I; 57, Stoughton Hall; 58, Jesse James and Co.; 59, Monsieur Paraclete; 60, Nestor; 61, Goldy and Dusty...
...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...