Word: ski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last year's spring banquet, alpine captain Bob Kelley announced to the ski team that he was passing on a ball and chain to his successor, Tim Hofer. Being captain of an athletic squad at Harvard is considered an honor in any sport and skiing is no exception, but heading the ski team carries more responsibility to teammates and more headaches than the captainship of any other squad...
...powdered slope may be thrilling, but when those fast-waxed bottoms leave the ground you enter another world. Last weekend in Vermont New England's top collegiate jumpers demonstrated their graceful aerobatics at Middlebury College's 55 meter hill. DAVE RAND [top left and top right], Harvard's Nordic ski captain, flew to one of his best performances of the year. CHRIS AXELSON of Middlebury breaks out of the gate [left] and rushes towards ground zero [above]. A pensive face [right] precedes the jump, but once you've started, there's no turning back...
With virtually no training and absolutely no skiing during the week, she has been a consistent top-ten finisher and has turned in such performances as sixth place three weeks ago at the University of Vermont, where the top four places were taken by former members of the U.S. Ski Team...
...Harvard when the education is as good elsewhere and the skiing is much better? "I felt I'd gotten as high as I could go at Burke, I wasn't going to ever be better than some of those people. I'd given serious skiing a shot there. It's funny, though as I go down the course now I always feel off balance, out of control, like my weight is on my inside ski. But I'm finishing closer behind the same people that were ahead of me when I was at Burke, I guess they've all slowed...
...would stand to reason that if Kris could ski everyday she might improve still further, but she doesn't think so. "It is a matter of being relaxed now. Sometimes I'm amazed to find out how much fun skiing actually...