Word: skis
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University of Toronto led. This is explained by the fact that in Canada every child is trained to live outdoors in winter, and so it naturally follows that when grown up he continues to take part in winter sports. He has become a proficient skater, or snowshoer, or ski-runner, and when he goes to college he enters into these sports...
...Ski-running has received much attention. Meets have been held between the colleges, in which there have been short dashes, long distance runs, and above all jumping. Many long and difficult jumps have been made, scarcely equalled by the people of Norway and Sweden...
This sport, has attracted so much attention that seven years ago, in January, 1910, a prominent ski-runner at Dartmouth founded a club there. For two years he shouldered all the burdens and took upon himself the task of getting the men to ski or snowshoe. How well he succeeded may be seen by the fact that the next year, Dartmouth held a Winter Carnival in which there were races and jumping competitions on skis and snowshoes. This competition was held only between members of Dartmouth and a few neighboring colleges. It proved so great a success, however, that...
...prominence of this event among the athletics of Dartmouth has been gaining, and more and more participants have been taking part in the Carnival from an increasing number of colleges, with better and better results. Last year C. G. Paulson of New Hampshire State College, broke the record of ski-jumping...
Hanover, N. H., Feb. 12.--Today saw the close of the most successful Winter Carnival ever held here. Twenty-five hundred people witnessed today's events, featured by Dartmouth's victory over McGill in the dual ski jump. Dartmouth also won the intercollegiate snowshoe race yesterday, the cross-country ski race, and 220-yard snowshoe dashes. Dartmouth also defeated Colgate in the intercollegiate ski relay race. McGill, however, took all three places in the competition for proficiency in the use of skis...