Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening of the NCAA Ski Championships at Dartmouth was postponed yesterday because of a rain storm that ruined the alpine courses on Mt. Ascutney at nearby Windsor, Vt. The Crimson ski team is slated to participate in the meet...
...NCAA Ski Championships open today at Dartmouth, and, for the first time in history, a Harvard team will be competing. The Crimson qualified for one of the ten position last weekend by finishing fifth in the Easterns at Williams...
...face of such awesome opposition, Gibson's strategy calls for all-out individual skiing, even at the expense of a high team score. He is asking members of his alpine squad to ski at top speed on both runs of the slalom and downhill, risking a fall in hopes of an exceptionally low time. He will also conserve the strength of his cross-country specialists by not entering them in the jump, possibly jeopardizing the team score in that event...
Other Quadling sports teams also did well recently. The ski team came in sixth at Intervale on Saturday and fifth at Pleasant Mountain on Sunday. Mary-Elizabeth H. Nelbach '64 had the best time on Saturday, while Winifred Berner '66 did best on Sunday...
...Harvard ski teams are chronically weak in the jumping event because they lack a practice hill. This year's squad is no exception, but valiant leaps by Bill Gray and John Schell were good enough to salvage a seventh for the snowmen last weekend. Added to the Crimson's startling second place cross-country finish Friday, the jumping score gave the team a commendable fourth place in the Nordic combined...