Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Interview with the Ski Team. Ames, Ferner, Winship, and Coach Halsey...
After the House dinner last night Ernst A. Hauser showed the Puritans a series of colored photos taken of the West. Hauser was in an Austrian ski patrol and later a member of the Austrian air force during the first World...
...meet at Leavenworth, Wash., he soared 273 ft., longest jump ever recorded in North American competition. Then he flew back to New York to compete three days later in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Cup meet at Bear Mountain, his first and favorite hill. Most Norwegians frown on skyscraping ski jumps built for headlines rather than for sport-like that at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, where jumpers have leaped 300 ft. The Bear Mountain ski jump is just a sporting little hill, constructed for jumps no longer than...
...blue-clad figure flick down the "inrun" at 50 m.p.h., float past the judges' tower, and glide, arms whirling, into their midst in a perfect landing. His first jump measured 167 ft. In the gathering dusk he took off for his second. This lime he landed on one ski, nearly fell. When the span was measured, a mighty roar went up. Tokle had soared 180 ft., broken a record for the 13th time...
Competing in what was probably one of the closest meets in the history of skiing, a surprising Crimson ski team, led by Captain Del Ames, Finn Ferner and Bungie King, came in fourth out of a field of ten in the eight annual intercollegiate ski union championships hold over the weekend on Mt. Mansfield, Vermont...