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...barriers, the Varsity cross country teach won two dual meets on Saturday, swamping Princeton 20-43, and Yale 25-28. Arthur Foote '33, captain of Crimson barriers, in an exciting race led Bonthron of Princeton until within 300 yards of the finish, when the Princeton runner made a fine sprint to cross the line about ten yards ahead of Foote...
...scrimmage followed some intensive work on pass defense, blocking and pass throwing, and was intended chiefly as a test for the No. 3 backs. The A team was in about 20 minutes, making their one touchdown on three plays from their own 45-yard line: a 25-yard sprint by Crickard, a 10-yard gain by Nevin, and a Wells-Crickard lateral pass...
...first time in an important race last week, there was no false start. The field, crouched for the gun, got away together, swept smoothly around the turn, came into the backstretch with Eastman three steps ahead. Eighty yards from the tape, Carr's smashing sprint caught the loping Eastman. At the finish, Carr was .2 yd. ahead, in amazing world's record time...
Decathlon (100-metre sprint, broad jump, shot-put, high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole-vault, javelin throw, 1,500-metre run) went to huge James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, insurance salesman and onetime University of Kansas footballer, who was in sixth place before the last five events, finished with a world's record score of 8,462.23. Second was Matti Jarvinen's brother Akilles with...
...afternoon, the Varsity and Jayvee boats rowed about four miles in all, which was broken up by frequent spurts. Starting each sprint from a very low stroke, Coach Whiteside gradually worked his crews up to an even 32 in order to accustom the men to raising the stroke at regular intervals as would be the case at the mile markers in a four mile race...