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...Crack junior free-styler Charlie Hutter of the Varsity Swimming team is the outstanding winter sports athlete of the year, according to selection made by the Harvard Athletic Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUTTER OUTSTANDING ATHLETE THIS WINTER | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Starting in the unlimited class will be Bill Glendinning, who has been undefeated in dual competition since he has been in college. Biggest feat so far for this crack wrestler occured curlier in the season when he came up against Charlie Tell, Princeton's massive all-American football player. Though he had a weight advantage of some 45 pounds, a height advantage of five inches, the huge Tiger is more brute strength than skill and agility, and the 1000 people who came to see the meet watched the Crimson lad win an exciting match in overtime, a match in which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/4/1937 | See Source »

Hugh S. Johnson wrote last week: "In logic and law there is no answer [to the President's proposal]. But Congress has been snowed under with objections mostly in error about what the proposal really means. Why? Because it took a crack at Mr. [Charles Evans] Hughes and because it was too damned slick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Big Debate | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Another feature event will be the dive, with Crimson ace Russell Greenhood facing Robert Helme of the Pennsylvania school. Diver Helme has been defeated only once this year and will be a hard nut for the Harvard man to crack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDEFEATED VARSITY SWIMMERS FACE STRONG QUAKER TEAM TONIGHT | 2/27/1937 | See Source »

This two mile race is another in which a classic struggle will be going on. Here, unfortunately, Harvard is not so well represented. Jaakko Mikkola has had a whole string of crack long distance men in the past, and names like Pen Hallowell, Art Foote and Bob Playfair are still remembered. But this year the only two miler worth much is Henry Marcy, and he has been laid up with illness; although he will be in there tomorrow, he is far from the top of his form and will probably not pick up much better than a fourth place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/26/1937 | See Source »

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