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...team plays host to 11 colleges this Saturday in its annual giant invitation slalom at Mt. Bromley. Dartmouth, New Hampshire, Princeton, Colby, Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, M. I. T., Middlebury, and Yale have all accepted, and the affair promises to include some of the best skiing seen in New England since the Dartmouth Winter Carnival last month...
...Carnival gets off to a gruelling start Friday afternoon with a six mile cross-country trek. On Saturday, slalom and jumping specialists will take the field in what may be the deciding events for the Crimson. Downhill races will be run off Sunday morning on the Thunderbolt trail, Mt. Greylock, to conclude the meet...
Bill Wasserman took seventh in the slalom, the only notable place secured by the team among the fields of over forty competing in each event. A spill at the last gate of his second run knocked Gerry Genn out of a probable fourth place in this event...
...slim, brown-haired Gretchen Fraser of Vancouver, Wash., who wears pigtails and looks younger than her 29 years. No one gave her (or any other U.S. woman) a chance against Europe's talented stars. She was the first to ski down the tricky special slalom run, which had thawed and frozen again. For ten minutes she stood nervously at the top of the run, her eyes closed most of the time, while officials tested the electric timing device and fussed with the position of the gates. Then...
After the Carnival, the ski team will fan out toward two other sabbath competitions. Coach Halsey, Laurie Griffin, Dee Bogert, Gerry Genn, and Graham Taylor will take off for the invitation jumping at Brattleboro, Vermont, and Gordie Abbott and Rod Nordblom for the Fiske Trophy Race, a slalom competition, at Woodstock, Vermont...