Word: techs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swimming Coach Frederick Richard ("Freddie") Lanoue of Georgia Tech got to thinking about the men who must jump from torpedoed ships into burning oil. He remembered an experience he once had when diving into a tank of water through a ring of burning gasoline. The gas had escaped from the hoop that contained it, and he had to come up for air through flames. Shooting up as high as he could, he grabbed a breath and sank back feet first, unscorched. Reasoned Coach Lanoue: Why not suggest the method to the Navy...
...eight climbers of the club, Mal Miller '43, Andy Kauffman '43, Bill Putnam, '45, Wilson Day '43, Dill Latadi, a Tech member of the club, George Wilbur '44, and Tom Furnas '43 are planning to leave this Sunday. Because of the summer session, the trip is scheduled to be over by June 21, but several of the party plan to go on west to take a try at Mt. Rainter...
Starting at 44, the Crimson dropped quickly to between 31 and 32, and then at the Tech Sailing Pavilion, when the Varsity began to eat ahead, the beat dropped still another point. Bus Curwen kept his sprint under wraps, not going up until the final 30 strokes, and then not over...
Capturing its first trophy in competition this year, the Harvard yacht team trounced M. I. T., Dartmouth, and eight other eastern sail fleets in the yacht basin, Saturday. Let by skippers David C. Noyes '44, John Burton '44 and George O'Day '45, the Crimson aggregation spotted the Tech boats an early lead, and went ahead to win in the final events, garnering 196 points to the Engineers...
...beating Princeton last week, Pennsylvania proved itself a factor, but the Quakers lack weight and are not really counted as competition. Tech, also, is considered way out of the running, and if it finishes better than last, it will be an upset...