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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Improvement over the form of 1939 in both major winter sports--basketball and swimming--is looked for by Pennsylvania during the 1940 season that will begin late this month. With outstanding sophomores coming up to the varsity and with plenty of veterans left for both teams, the Red and Blue mentors in each sport see Pennsylvania reaching greater heights in its league competition than it did a year ago, when it finished in a tie for fourth in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League and in a triple tie for fifth in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League...
Beginning his sixteenth season as coach of the court squad, Lon Jourdet, the only alumni coach in the league, will have a completely veteran team available if he wishes to use it. The Quakers will miss Payson Brickley, 1939 captain; Tony Mischo, runner-up for the league's individual scoring crown, and Bill Dignan and Chuck Diven, but they still have Ross Hahn and Bruce Pearce as forwards; Harian Gustafson, football captain, at center, and Captain Gerry Seeders and Bernie Schrieber at the guards. In fact that is the way Pennsylvania will line up, at least for its early games...
Pennsylvania's basketball schedule begins early this year, on December 30. When the Red and Blue will meet California in the second of two double-headers listed for the Palestra. It has seventeen games altogether and its league season will begin on January 6. with Cornell in the Palestra...
...Alumni meets have been of the 'thrilling' type because not only do they afford the season's first test of a usually green Varsity, but because they present the unusual and sometimes pathetic spectacle of some of Harvard's all-time aquatic here, Charlie Hutter, will take time off from his Medical School studies to compete in the sprint events, while his perpetual Alumni-meet rival, George "24-second" Scott, plans to thrash out a mighty 50 yards. Rusty Greenhood, last year's captain and League champion diver, will team with Bun Merriam, another former Crimson star, to features...
...last event on the program was a 200-yard relay, consisting of four men on a team, each swimming 50 yards. The worthy Ulen had been fostering secret hopes of perhaps snatching an American record for the distance, since the event was to be swum only once during the season. Gentlemen such as Messrs. Hutter, Kendall, Barker, and McKay were then Hal's disciples--a potent enough aggregation for any sprint record...