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Yale has beaten Pennsylvania and Navy, failing to take only one first place in those meets. Harvard has defeated Dartmouth and Columbia, gaining II of a possible 14 firsts, while Princeton has overcome Navy and Dartmouth, scoring 10 first places. Yale and Princeton each have engagements this week end the Tigers Swimming Pennsylvania at home. A third meet on Saturday will being Dartmouth to Navy...
...scoring. They hold, among them, seven of the best marks in the nine events on the league program. The individual scoring lead currently is deadlocked between Erie Cutler, Harvard captain, and Ned Parke, of Princeton. Each of these men, both free stylers, has scored 20 points on four first places in two meets. Third place is held by Harvard's Henry (Jim) Curwen, who has 18, while two Navy men, Jim Conger and Gordon Wiley, both sophomores, fellow with 17 and 16, respectively...
...first place winners in the 1939 meet will return to action in the Fifth Annual Quadrangular Track and Field Meet among the Varsity and Freshman teams of Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and Cornell in the Boston Gardon, Saturday night, February 24. In addition, two men who tied for first places in 1939 and three first place winners from the 1938 meet will compete this year...
Other returning first place winners include Fred West of Cornell in the shot put, Bill Shallow of Harvard, who set a new meet record of 55 feet 5 inches a year ago, in the 35-pound weight throw, and Donald Blount of Dartmouth in the broad jump. Blount also tied for first place in the high jump and Tom Lussen of Yale tied for first in the pole vault...
Harvard was dropped into a three-way tie for last place in the League by the defeat at the hands of the second-place Tigers, but Columbia and Cornell, the other two incumbents of the position, met last night, and the Lions won, 48 to 34. This leaves the Crimson in sixth, with one win and three losses, a half a game both from fifth and from seventh. A win or loss tonight will send the team either up or down one notch...