Word: skis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chaffee took second place in the cross-country at Williams last weekend, and the Harvard ski team placed sixth behind first-place Middlebury...
...ski meet consists of four "events," slalom and downhill (the "alpine" events), and jumping and cross-country the "Nordic" events...
...slalom race, the competitor must ski down a narrow, sharply twisting course, closely defined by bamboo poles with colored flags, in as short a time as possible. An average course takes about a minute, and the fastest times are often within a few tenths of a second...
...downhill, the competitor must ski that is usually the entire length of a mountain trail as fast as he can. In the deepest sections there are often "control gates" which define several turns that must be made to keep the racers from going to fast. But a good fast course will usually have one or two spots there the racer is going up to fifty or sixty miles an hour...
...volunteer efforts of Gus Jacaccl, who was coach through 1963, and Charles Gibson, the present coach. Despite the severe handicap of having no place to practice near Cambridge, the Harvard team has qualified for the last three years among the top five teams in the East who ski in the NCAA's against the Western teams...