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...squad will hold dally practice in the baseball cage, chiefly leg and ankle strengthening exercises, and will get itself in condition by daily distance running. H.B. Washburn '83, acting captain of the squad is particularly anxious to get together a ski-jumping team, aspirants for which will be allowed to practice at the Braeburn Country Club Ski-jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY, 1936 TEAMS ORGANIZED BY SKIERS | 11/26/1932 | See Source »

...Norwegians, who won most points in 1924 and 1928, in the skating races and the 18-kilometre lang lauf (ski race); 2) the amazing incompetence of the Japanese, who had come to the Olympics at their own expense to become better acquainted with winter sports. The Japanese fancy skaters, who had studied this sport in books, found it hard to keep their footing. Japanese speed skaters were outdistanced; two Japanese skiers were injured by turning somersaults olf the ski-jump and another, who fell down in front of the schoolhouse, amused Lake Placid children by his inability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Lake Placid | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...Ski-jumping. The length of a jump on sMs depends largely on the topography of the hill. Ski-jumpers, who use especially wide skis with three grooves instead of one, to make them go straight, are judged on form. Ski-jump judges first picked 19-year-old Hans Beck of Kongsberg, Norway for two jumps of 232 and 208 feet. Then they changed their decision, ranked him second to another 19-year-old Kongs-bergian, Birger Ruud. Red-cheeked Ruud, who works in a gun factory, and whose older brother, Sigmund, finished seventh in the same event went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Lake Placid | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

Harvard stops at ostentation, Yale at baggy trousers, Dartmouth at the end of the ski-jump, and Radcliffe at practically nothing. Such, in the monotonous nutshell, are the findings of a group of advanced psychology students from three of these four leaves of the New England clover of culture. Admittedly, and time spent pondering on the intrinsic meaning of the word "advanced psychologists" is a waste of time. The important matter before the readers yesterday of the Front Page, Valhalla of the Fourth Estate, was that the inmates of these four institutions have been forever set apart as types. There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ONE AND THE MANY | 12/5/1930 | See Source »

...Carnival this year the largest ever held in America. Thanks to the generosity of the Rev. J. E. Johnson, honorary president of the club, it will be subsidized by endowment, thus making possible the proper attention to all details. The intercollegiate meet, including ski and snowshoe dashes, cross-country runs and a ski-jump, will be the feature of the Carnival. As students in all American and Canadian colleges are invited, excellent competition is expected. Prizes in all events are offered by the club. All competitors will be guests of the club during their stay, and will receive board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH INVITES UNIVERSITY MEN TO CARNIVAL | 1/21/1916 | See Source »

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