Word: slalom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others are unable to get up to Wood stack in time for that event, because of having examinations today. Thus chances of a Crimson victory are blasted at the start, but it is likely that some of the men who have done well in the past in downhill and slalom will repeat their performances again this year. Both the latter events are being held on Suicide Six, which is a mean hill under any circumstances, and may be doubly treacherous under poor snow conditions...
Captain Finn Ferner leads the list of men entered in the downhill, with Bungle King, Tom Winship, and Del Ames making up the foursome. King, Ferner, Ames, and a Freshman, Duncan Reed, will run in the slalom race. Henry Bigelow is the only Harvard representative in the langlauf. The jump, which will be held on the Dartmouth hill at Hanover, will see Ames, Winship, and Bigelow competing for the Crimson. The latter event will probably be held on Sunday morning...
...annual Fisk Trophy slalom will be held on Suicide Six on Sunday afternoon, and several of the Crimson runners are entered, including Ames, Forner, Winship, and King. Undoubtedly the best skiers from the other competing colleges will enter the race also, and the repeat performance will probably settle any doubts about the merits of the respective contestants, if such doubts are raised because of snow conditions of the day before...
...Skimeisters made Froelich's lodge their rendezvous. They talked about the war. They talked about the National Open Slalom tournament on Mount Hood in 1939, when some of them had refused to race until the Nazi flag was displayed with the flags of other nations in the lobby of Timberline Lodge. They talked about little Peter Radacher, who had since gone back to Germany to fight. Much beer, much talk flowed at the Froelichs'. One day the talk suddenly ceased. In Washington, the Congress of the U.S. declared war. In Washington, at headquarters of the Federal Bureau...
...unsatisfactory snow condition at Groton, the projected slalom was not held on Saturday...