Word: slalomers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cranz and France's Emile Allais walked up the hill together. Said Cranz: ''You haven't enough paraffin on your skis." Replied Allais: "I haven't any paraffin." said Cranz: "Take this. I have plenty." Cranz had just won the first heat of the slalom-through a zigzag, flag-marked course-in which Allais had finished third...
...were combined with the U. S. Open. Dartmouth's astonishing Florida-born Richard Durrance, who first saw snow when he was 12 years old, liked it so much that he made himself the No. 1 skier of the country, won both the Amateur and Open downhill and slalom championships against a crack field that included Hans Hauser, three times champion of Austria, and Dartmouth's ski coach Walter Prager, who finished second to his protege in the downhill race...
...Dartmouth ski team: the 27th Dartmouth Outing Club winter carnival (slalom, downhill, cross-country racing, jumping) from McGill, Montreal, a team of Swiss students, Maine, New Hampshire, Amherst, Harvard, Yale; on total team points. Carnival Queen, chosen by three doctors from the college infirmary, was Florence Allen of Birmingham, Ala., who had never before seen snow...
...satisfaction with the worth of Hannes Schneider as an instructor lies in the fact that in 1927, though I had never before seen a ski-binding, I managed to beat all others at Dartmouth except one member of the team in the slalom. Before snow fell I had found a book of excerpts from Schneider's The Wonders of Skiing in the library, had absorbed the feel of his technique from the photographs without understanding one word of the German text...
...Glee Club members will join with the Wellesley Choir in the torch light procession opening the carnival while members of the skiing team, including Colin Maclaurin '38, Harold VanB. Cleveland '38, and Jose de Varon '38, will participate in Slalom, downhill, and ski joring races as well as presenting the melodrama that will end the sports program...