Word: seppala
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Huskies. Emile St. Godard of The Pas, Manitoba, raced his dogs against the famous huskies of Leonard Seppala, the man who took the serum to Nome, beat him in a 123-mile dog derby for a gold...
...that the students might parade to the railroad station, return and present to President Frank Palmer Speare a muscular, thick-furred canine, one of the famed Husky-dog team that took diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in 1925. It was a gift, a new Northeastern mascot, from Dog-driver Leonhard Seppala. Driver Seppala was present. He and the dog rode on a float from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard's book of etiquet and saluted the Northeastern parade with showers of eggs, ice, vegetables...
Down the frozen grand allee at Quebec a team of seven excited dogs romped. They were harnessed to a sled. Behind the sled trotted young Emil St. Goddard, smiling. It was the finish of the eastern international dog sled derby and St. Goddard had defeated his archrival, Leonhard Seppala, by the comfortable margin of 20 minutes, set a new record for the event (120 miles, 40 miles per day, elapsed time, 11 hr., 37 min., 35 sec.), won a cash prize of $1,000. Enthusiastic thousands noted that dogs with long legs had come in first. Conservative Seppala had relied...
...meantime Balto, onetime lead dog for Seppala, super-canine transporter of serum to Nome, yawned in durance vile and warm at Los Angeles (TIME, Feb. 28). He may have reflected that every dog has his matinée, wondered who was leading them...