Word: skis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steamboat Springs, Colo., with leaps of 276 and 289 ft.-plus almost flawless form-Art Tokle of Chicago's Norge Ski' Club won the national ski-jumping championship. And in Ishpeming, Mich., racing through a near blizzard, Norman Oakbig of Bush Lake, Minn, took the North American cross-country (10 mile) championship...
...members of the varsity ski team will compete today in the Eastern Ski Association's cross-country and jumping events at Rumford, Maine...
Dwight P. Black--Track Team; Ski Team; Eliot House Committee; Eliot House Athletic Secretary; Undergraduate Athletic Council...
Timothy J. W. Wise--Varsity Baseball; Varsity Ski Team, Captain; Hasty Pudding Theatricals; Varsity Tennis Squad: Winthrop House Operetta; House Athletics
They never got there. Edward Almquist, the last boy in line, bent over to adjust his skis, heard a sound like "rumbling drums," glanced up, and saw the smoking, tumbling white front of an avalanche racing down upon them. He yelled, fled, fell. When he got up, the mountains were silent again. Keith Jacobsen and the second boy, Larry Schinke, had vanished. Survivor Almquist started the 4½ miles back to the pass. He broke one ski. But he plunged fearfully on, waded along the Snoqualmie River until he found a familiar landmark, then took off through the snow again...