Word: crimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doesn't rain this afternoon, Harvard will play the Williams baseball team on Soldiers Field at 3:45 p.m. It should be another breather type game for the Crimson...
Contrary to tradition established in recent years, the real strength in this year's freshman squad lies in the running events rather than in the weights. The varsity weight men, this year, as in most recent years, have been leading the Crimson to all its track victories. 'Fifty-two weightmen, on the other hand, while not displaying outright weakness, have been forced to take a secondary position behind a host of really strong runners...
...close win over Exeter Saturday gave added proof to the fact that it is the middle distance runners and the milers who are the real core of the team. It is in the quarter, the half, and the mile that the Crimson has the depth which has resulted in clean sweeps in these events time after time...
...impression be created that the freshmen are weak in the dash and hurdle events. The most consistent winner of all the Crimson runners, is flect sprinter Dick Weiskopf. A second in the 220 in the opening meet of the season is all that mars his record of firsts in the 100 and 220 in every contest this spring. Charlie Durakis has never taken lower than a second in either the high or the low hurdles...
Bill Gelck, recently elected captain of the team, is a Jack of all jumps. The Crimson's top high Jumper, he combines with Jim McLaughlin to form an effective broad jumping team. Both Gelck and McLaughlin also support Durakis in the hurdles. Not content with these events, Geick likes to dabble in the pole vault...