Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven times in the last eight years the Intercollegiate Games have been won by a California college. Last week Stanford, true to precedent, was first at Cambridge, 17⅔ points ahead of Yale. The big event was the pole vault in which the three best vaulters in the world competed-Ward Edmonds of Stanford, Les Barnes of Southern California, and Sabin Carr of Yale. Carr won without breaking any records. Only two men scored double firsts, Ray Barbuti (Syracuse) in the 220 and 440, and Eric Krenz (Stanford) in the discus and shot put. Illinois, regular winner in the middle...
...mile runs will inaugurate the fifty-second annual I. C. 4 A. Track and Field Championships in the Stadium this afternoon. Tomorrow the semi-finals and finals of the events started today, and the distance runs, will decide the 15 individual championships, and the team title which Stanford University is defending...
...members of the Crimson team which last Saturday displayed unexpected power in defeating Yale 78 to 57. After its strong showing against the Blue, the Harvard team is expected to give good account of itself in the scoring tomorrow, and is generally considered a possible winner of second honors. Stanford has sent a contingent that is conceded potential power sufficient to win the meet easily...
...weight events today will bring into action a group of performers from the West coast who are of record-breaking quality. Krenz and Kothert of Stanford since their arrival in Cambridge, have been putting the shot 49 feet in practice without undue effort The former is also a discus ace C. A. Pratt '28 and David Guaruaccia '29 will be the University's chief bids for points in these events...
...sighed a little, perhaps, at the transitoriness of all things when the first knell of all the college humor in College Humor was pealed. Eight comics of the West Coast, led by the Stanford Chaparral and the California Pelican, made declarations of independence announcing that because the great faith of humor had been broken and the college campus represented as a place of flasks and caresses, they would no longer permit College Humor to reprint their funnin...