Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...periods the green and white shirted prep schoolers ran Harvard's defense ragged, netting 12 goals to one by the losers. After the halftime intercession, a hopelessly outclassed informal Crimson squad gave up playing lacrosse and turned its attention to battering the team against which it could not score...
Meanwhile at the New England Prep School meet at Andover, Rollo Sink, former national collegiate mile title-holder (4.17) from Southern Cal was beating workhorse Jim Rafferty by 10 yards in 4.25. Sink, who is currently attending the Navy Supply School here, has been working out under Jaakko for several weeks, and it was Jaakko who gave him instructions on how to run his race against Rafferty...
Coach Mikkola has been criticized recently for shelving his top men in meets with prep-schools, notably in last week's dual meet against Milton Academy. He won't be pulling his punches tomorrow. On paper, the Crimson squad that ran through its final practice session yesterday stands as the strongest of the season...
Following his first victory, Coach Jaakko Mikkola will lead his squad to Milton Academy Saturday in an attempt to cop his second. In their third straight out of town meet against a prep school team, the trackmen with a record behind them of one win, one loss, and one tie, stand a good chance of coming out on the winning end in Saturday's meet...
What would normally be a tremendous moral victory for the prep schoolers is far from it now for Andover boasts one of New England's top teams. After tying the Blues, who had previously downed M.I.T., the Mikkolamen stand a good chance of coming out on top in tomorrow's encounter with Exeter...