Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contest is a battle between two unbeaten squads. The freshmen have taken all eight of their games so far, and Belmont Hill, possessing an untainted record, was a Christmas time scholastic tournament at Lake Placid...
...pace of House competition is slated for an additional step-up next month with contests in swimming, volleyball, boxing, wrestling, and fencing. Four multi-House swimming meets are on the agenda and a full schedule for volleyball squads is drawn up. Boxing, wrestling, and fencing competition will be in tournament form...
...Washington's snowy Cascade Mountains last week, 14 crack ski jumpers mounted to the top of the runway at Olympian Hill to try for the Seattle Ski Club tournament championship. One by one they plummeted down the slide, took off into the cold air in the most spectacular sight known to sport. A couple of them landed as much as 285 feet down the slope. When it came his turn, slender, nervous Sverre Kongsgaard of Norway eyed the crowd of 4,000 far below. Then he shoved...
Because form as well as distance counts in a ski jump, Record-Smasher Kongsgaard (whose landings were shaky) finished third, after two fellow Norwegians, in the Seattle Ski Club tournament. He took that in stride along with his new record. Said Sverre Kongsgaard: "I made a good jump. It may never happen again...
...show will be a duel between the Crimson's Henry Foster and Army's Charley Oliver. Oliver is currently a ranking players in intercollegiate squash. Last December he eliminated the best college players to finish second in the Union Boat Club's squash tournament...