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Coach Farrell is entering a Crimson squad that, if nothing else, has been primed for this contest which climaxes the winter track season, and though pre-meet predictions point to a blanket finish for the teams, with victory probably hinging on the mile relay, the Crimson will need every break to top either the Red or the Green. So evenly matched are the three teams that the closest team contest in the fifteen years of the games is predicted. The program is a first-rate one and promises many smashing races. In the 45-yard high hurdles alone there...
...visitor's pre-meet lineup has Coach Hal Ulen puzzled, but not worried, for Jack Wallace, famed for his Red Cross activities and B.U. coach, has entered Steele's name in every event except the dive and breaststroke, while the Terrier star will be limited to just three events. Silverman, the other outstanding B.U. natator, may give some trouble to Walter S. White '36, Leventritt's running mate in the breaststroke, but should not threaten the Crimson record-breaker...
...asserted on only two points: that the men who survive today's trials may confidently be expected to provide the spectator in the Stadium tomorrow with a veritable battle of the giants, and that their ranks will include many names which figured but slightly on the dope sheets for pre-meet speculation...
...turn on the uncertain news of a pitcher or on an irregularity in the ground, but in track the dopesters and the mathematician may stiff command attention. Track performances vary, but they usually vary within limits. And it is these limits that give purpose and excuse to the pre-meet mathematicians who about this time of year begin to flood the sporting pages with their carefully weighed prognostications...
...Pre-meet prognostications give the Eli a decided advantage, but the Crimson runners, led by Captain Vernon Munroe '31, feel confident that they have a, change of upsetting all predictions and capturing the first Freshman meet in years...