Word: skier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uninitiated, who take their skiing vicariously from the movies and the newsreels, jumping is the zenith of competitive skiing. But only about one skier in ten is a jumper. Finns prefer the langlanf -racing on the flat. Precision-minded skiers like the slalom-a tricky obstacle race between pairs of flags set irregularly down a steep hillside. For daredevils with a taste for breakneck speed, slashing turns, there is only one sport on skis: downhill racing-probably the most difficult and dangerous form of skiing competition...
...Swiss Skier Andre Roch proposed to lay out such a course for the U. S. He chose Aspen, Colo., in the heart of the Rockies 200 miles west of Denver, in the 1880s the "world's richest mining camp," now a shrunken village of 800 miners. Roch laid out the course on the precipitous north slope of Mt. Aspen before he returned home. Aspenites completed it according to his plan. From a height of 10,350 ft. above sea level, Roch Run has a vertical drop of 2,500 ft. in one and three-quarters miles. It begins...
This year for the first time, the speediest Kanonen will have his name handed down to posterity on a perpetual trophy. The Bright Trophy for the Harvard Recreational Race, has been donated in gratitude to Alexander H. Bright '19, who, a nationally known skier in his own right, has been largely responsible for the formation of the Ski Club...
Last week with a good deal of hoopla NBC announced that Champion Skier Torger Tokle had agreed to broadcast his sensations while jumping at Lake Placid. Earnestly an announcer described how he was being fitted out with a 15-lb. transmitter, a mike in a mask. Then Torger swished away. There was a faint crunch of snow and nothing more. The champion, it seemed, forgot to talk...
Outstanding consistent performer is Sophomore Del Ames, erstwhile protege of Otto Schniebs at Hanover and unquestionably last year's most valuable skier. Not only does he tear down mountain trails and through tricky slaloms, but he's hard to best in the jumping and cross country events. Another lad expected to crash through this season is Finn Ferner, Norwegian dare-devil who had a bit of bad luck last year when he found New England trails a little more tortuous than the Scandinavian slopes, spending most of his racing time in the woods. As far as style goes, Ferner...