Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third place was the highest position the Crimson track team was able to attain at Saturday night's B.A.A. Games, but the squad produced five such finishes in a generally impressive show of strength and improvement...
Cornell captain Charlie Carpenter broke his school's 200-yard butterfly cord, swimming a 2:27.8,1.3 seconds better than his own old mark. The varsity's Jim Perilman and Bill Shellstede finished second and third. This points up the need for Crimson captain John Hammond, who did not race in the 200 Saturday, to be in top form for the Dartmouth encounter...
...varsity two-mile relay unit opened the meet by taking third behind Brown and Cornell. Well-run legs by Jed Fitzgerald and Willie Thompson put the Crimson in second place, but number three man Fred Howard went out after the leader too fast, and was passed by the Cornell runner...
...League game is important, however. Especially this year, with Yale and Dartmouth resting on top of the standings with 3-0 records, and Harvard tied with Brown for third place, contests with any one of the top four are key games, not respites for the varsity...
...Crimson wrestlers will try for their third straight win this afternoon against Columbia in New York. Last Saturday they swept over Dartmouth, 27-3, although coach Robert Pickett warned after the meet that the team still had "a lot of work...