Word: ski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ski team finished eighth in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Championships last Sunday at Lyndonville, Vt. Middlebury won the tournament with a point total...
Steep and unforgiving, the ski track lay like a white scar along the face of Sweden's Areskutan Mountain. Half a dozen of the world's best skiers had already tumbled into bone-bruising falls as they swooped down the dangerous drop, going all-out for the downhill championship of the world. Norway's Stein Eriksen might well have taken it easy. Far ahead on points after winning the slalom and giant slalom, the Oslo ski salesman could have coasted home to a safe, slow finish, still a sure bet for the championship of championships, the Alpine...
...Eriksen picked the young (16) French prodigy Francois Bonlieu (who finished second in the giant slalom) as his chief rival for the 1956 Olympics. But the 26-year-old Norwegian speedster expects to be schussing home a champion for years to come. "You never get old when you ski," says he. "Skiing is for me the extreme expression of joie de vivre...
Joseph B. Poindexter '57 of Matthews Hall and Stepney, Conn., was elected captain of the freshman ski team yesterday. Poindexter has led the freshman scoring in both of the team's meets. He is a graduate of the Putney School, Putney...
...Women Fight. It was also ladies' day in the 15-kilometer relay race, and produced something close to a diplomatic incident. On the first lap when Finland's Sirkka Polkunen tried to pass Russia's Lubov Kosyreva, the Russian girl stuck out her ski pole to keep the Finn from passing, and the girls scuffled for a moment...