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Dudley Richards '54, the world's fifth ranking figure skater, who was just nosed out of a berth on the Olympic team, will fly to Oslo shortly to assist the American team if he is needed. After the Games, Richards will travel to Paris with fellow student Dick Button for the 1952 World Championships...
Sonya Klopfer, 17, of Long Island City, N.Y., a solid little brunette who is fond of malteds and doughnuts, got her first name, despite the difference in spelling, out of her mother's unbounded admiration for Sonja Henie. Sonya specializes in free-style skating-"The finest free skater of her age in the world today," said the conservative British Skating World, after her third-place performance in the 1951 World Championship. Sonya is the current North American and U.S. titleholder...
Only two men will be picked. Harvard's Dick Button, the defending Olympic champion, is automatically qualified. Button has been the World Champion Figure Skater for the last four years...
Right Wingman Richard has some tall claims to his title. A powerful skater and a cat-quick opportunist, he can pounce on a puck and fire his hard, left-handed shot for the net before defensemen can gather their wits. His mark of 50 goals in one season (1944-45) is an alltime League record (and one of the nine he now holds). Last week, Richard was again far ahead of the field in goals scored this season. And at week's end, Richard was hot on the trail of another record: the lifetime mark of 324 goals...
...winner of the rookie of the league award last year, while center Walt Greeley--the best along-the-boards player on the team--won the Angier Trophy as the most improved man on the Crimson squad. George Chase, a utility man in '50-'51, and a fine skater, works at right wing...