Word: tracking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That, at least, is the observation of Robert A. Dennison '50 after a season spent piloting jalopies around a West Peabody track. However, it isn't what induced him to take up jalopies as a pastime. He started going to the races during the summer but found it was getting too expensive to pay his way into the track several nights a week; so Dennison picked up a cheap 1940 two-door Ford sedan, three mechanics, a membership in the National Jalopy Racing Association, and became an insured driver instead of a daring spectator...
Dennison attributes the rise of the jalopy star to the informal atmosphere of the track and the increased number of accidents resulting from bigger and more cars and the fact that all the drivers are amatures. There are a few turnovers every evening, but since they hardly ever involve serious injury and since most of the spectators know at least one of the drivers it makes good entertainment...
...what of New Haven itself, now off the beaten track? Its rutted streets will deteriorate in tranquillity. Its citizens will sleep the suburban sleep. Its institutions will wither...
...scheduling two baseball games, a triangular track meet, the only home crew regatta of the year as well as tennis and lacrosse matches, Bingham has laid the foundation for the weekend and promises to repeat this type of schedule next year if the dance proves successful...
Major sports--basketball, Clifton D. Crosby '50; baseball, Miles D. Huntington '50; crew, Michael J. Scully '48; football Houston; hockey, William L. Garrity, Jr. '50; swimming, Robert N. Berke '51; Track, Trimble...