Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disgruntled over lack of gallery as long as a handful of ear-muffed gentlemen, seated in a little wooden coop, remained on the scene. For they were officials of the American Olympic Committee and they were selecting a team of eight to represent the U. S. in the Winter Olympic Games at St. Moritz next February...
...eager is the Amateur Skating Union to make an impressive showing in international competition that they sent a half-dozen U. S. topnotchers abroad last winter to pick up experience. At the European-style Olympic tryouts last week the investment paid its first dividends. Although the No. 1 speed-skating event of the year had left the Oconomowocians cold, the American Olympic Committee announced that next year's team will be the best ever sent to the Olympics. During the week three new records were etched into U. S. skating history...
Coach Jaako Mikkola's one-mile relay team of Hobart Lerner, Joe Donnelly, Frannie King and Jim Lightbody outran relay combinations from Princeton and Yale to win the Big Three winter title in the time of 3:26 to provide the big spark for Harvard Saturday night at the New York Millrose games...
...basketball, and grab the 1938 baseball championship from under our noses, it gives as great glee to see what happened to the Wearers of the Green last Saturday. First of all, the Indians were scalped in a skiing meet by the University of New Hampshire at a winter carnival in Durham, which isn't as serious as it seems because some of the Hanoverians were away at the Maine meet in Rumford. Then from New Haven we received the news that the Big Green swimming team had been ducked decisively 54-21, only taking one event. Not that Hall Ulen...
...enthusiasts might see Harvard defeat Dartmouth on the slopes this winter, now that Dartmouth's Dick Durrances and Eddie Wellses have become alumni. Four Crimson skiers placed high Saturday in the Eastern Amateur Ski Association open downhill meet at Stowe, Vermont, competing against the country's experts. Captain Bill Hinton finished twelfth in a field of thirty-two, with Gale Burton finishing sixteenth, John Pierpont, seventeenth, and Jesse Thomas, twenty-fifty. Of the quartet, only Pierpont is a senior, while Hinton and Burton are Sophomores. Thomas is a freshman...