Word: sprinters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobody seems very concerned about Dartmouth. Yet the Indians just might hand the varsity its second straight dual meet loss this afternoon. Big Green sprinter Gerry Ashworth has already beaten Jay Luck of Yale, and should have no trouble today. In the 660, Dartmouth's Tom Holzel has run four straight races under 1:13:0, and the varsity's Don Kirkland will need an inspired performance to beat...
...Jinx. To win at Chamonix, Ferries will need the speed of a sprinter and the agility of an acrobat; he must thread his way twice through the tortuous course at breakneck speed. He will have to stave off the challenge of such superb skiers as Austria's nimble Gerhard Nenning and France's bull-necked Guy Périllat-who swept every major Alpine title in 1961. Ferries will have to lick an old jinx: in 28 years of trying, no U.S. male skier has ever brought home an F.I.S. or Olympic Alpine championship. He may also have...
...high school diploma). He showed an early instinct for politics, at the age of 15 took the stump for the local Democratic candidate for the state legislature. At the University of Oklahoma, Albert majored in political science, was student council president, Phi Beta Kappa, a tournament bridge player, a sprinter, a 118-lb. wrestler (he now weighs 168), a member of the chess team and the pistol squad. The boy from Bug Tussle also won a Rhodes scholarship...
...varsity swimming team tackles one of its toughest opponents of the season this afternoon at Annapolis. Navy lost only Guthrie, Norfleet, and Oldham from the squad that beat Yale last year, and gained a highly touted sprinter from last year's freshmen. But the Crimson was not hurt much by graduation either, and most of the swimmers who figured in last year's victory over the Middles are back to try again this season...
Stowell's freshman team, led by shotputter Art Croasdale and Olympic sprinter Aggrey Awori, may provide some of the outstanding performances of the evening. Croasdale set the University indoor shot put record in Monday's B.U. meet. Awori has clocked a 9.4 seccentury, and reached the semifinals in the 1960 Olympic 100-meter dash competition...