Word: ski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Varsity ski team edged Yale by a close 98.6-97.6 score Saturday in the annual Big Three meet to win back the Bob Goodman trophy from the Elis...
Joseph B. Poindexter '57 of Adams House and Stepney, Conn., was elected captain of the ski team yesterday. Poindexter, the best cross-country man on the team, concentrates in the Nordic events...
...Convinced that his country's youngsters are going to pot sitting in front of their television sets, "Jack Rabbit" Johannsen elected himself a one-man committee to do something about it, and offered his spare time to selling Canadian youth on the muscle-building virtues of cross-country skiing. Last week, deep in the snow-smothered Laurentians at St. Sauveur, Quebec, about 80 boys from 18 Canadian prep schools turned out for the second annual Jack Rabbit Ski Championship. It was an energetic tribute to "Pop" Johannsen's successful salesmanship...
Johannsen grew up on skis in Norway. When he came to Montreal in 1900, he spent as much time talking friends into cross-country runs as he did at his job selling log-loading machines. And almost singlehanded he blazed ski trails through the Laurentians when Montreal skiers were schussing down the slopes of Mount Royal and doing their jumping on what is now Cote-des-Neiges Road, in the heart of the city...
When his work took him south to the U.S., Pop Johannsen helped lay out trails around Lake Placid; soon his services were in demand wherever a North American ski resort was being laid out. Busy as he was, Johannsen never lost his zest for competition. At 60 he finished second in a 32-mile race from Ste. Agathe to Shawbridge, Que. The next year he led a dozen skiers on a 150-mile trip north of Mont Trem-blant, through the Five Finger Lakes area and down the Devil's River Valley. "The old guy set a hellish pace...