Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When ski racers come to the Middlebury Snow Bowl, they all have to take a playing card from the deck of a queer old lady who rules the mountain. No one is conscious of having taken the card. Sometimes if you look hard you can see aces and deuces fall out of the racers boots when they take them off in the gym where everybody sleeps at the end of the day's skiing. The racers never see the card fall out--they are always in a hurry to get to dinners and the fabulous parties at Sigma Etc. that...
...unknown and unpraised Radcliffe ski team has been doing all season what the Harvard team has found impossible: winning races. With only one race left in the season, the team has an excellent chance to once again take home the intercollegiate team championship...
Radcliffe's domination of the division is more an indication of the circuit's weakness than Radcliffe's real strength. While McLane has placed well racing on her own in U.S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association races, winning the senior division of the New Year's cup at Pat's Peak on January 5 and the Mt. Snow Cup held at Mt. Snow on February 10, these races are marked by a distinct lack of good competition. In both cases the juniors class (18 and under) far outpaced the senior field...
...juniors find many opportunities open to them in colleges seeking to build strong teams, juniors on the female circuit who have not developed to Olympic caliber find few schools seeking after them. As a consequence, only schools like Dartmouth and Middlebury, where the expense of running a women's ski team is minimal, have been able to field even passable teams and Radcliffe has faced little real competition...
...Harvard ski team finished seventh in the Eastern Intercollegiate ski championship last weekend. It was the highest finish in the event in the three years Peter Carter has coached the team...