Word: slalomers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard's first skiing team will make its initial entry in the field of intercollegiate winter sports when it competes in the College Week contests at Lake Placid in the last week of December. The Crimson ski-runners will be entered only in the slalom and downhill races to be held on the afternoon of December 30, and the morning of December 31, respectively. Teams from Dartmouth, McGill, New Hampshire, and other New England and Canadian colleges are expected to provide hard competition for a new Crimson outfit, inexperienced in formal team competition and lacking intensive practice over difficult courses...
...Varsity Squad will be divided into those men who are training especially for the downhill and slalom races, which are the main interest of the team, and those who, from ineligibility or inexperience will go with the team merely to practice. Minor letters will be awarded by the H.A.A. to members of the Varsity and Freshman Teams who have done well in two or more meets. Unfortunately one of Harvard's greatest ski-runners, R.H. Livermore '32, has been lost from team competitions by graduation...
...title that was another feather in the cap of smart junior and Phi Gamma Pitkin, who had asked her up. There was some roughhousing on the ice called a moccasin dance, discreeter dances indoors; skating, tobogganing, skiing went on next morning, but the most interesting event was the slalom race. Down from the top of Balch Hill, toward the dark skirt of pinewoods and the scattered crowd plunged the slalomers with a spiked pole in each hand. A slalom race is an obstacle race on skis; all the way down the course little red flags nailed to stakes...