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...trackmen are by no means a perfect team, for their strength is not evenly distributed, and they must rely on certain events to give them enough points to put them in the money, Judging by their performance against Exeter, Coach Neufeld will have one very potent ace up his sleeve in the 1000 yard run, where the veterans of the cross country team are showing themselves as fit indoors as they were on the hills. Led by Bill Palson, harrier captain, the distance men include Marshall Hughes and Bob Mead, all three of whom are capable of repeating the clean...
...high point of the winter track season comes today at New Haven,when the first indoor dual meet between Harvard and the Yale will take place. The Eli trackmen are pre-game favorites, but crimson Coach Jaako Mikkola says that the team is very determined and that he is confident of victory...
Within the past few months the trackmen have turned in very creditable showings in their five meets--the V. F. W., K. of C., and B. A. A. games in Boston, the Millrose games in New York, and the Army meet at West Point. But these meets have actually been only preliminaries for the highlights of the winter season, the Yale and Dartmouth contests...
Harvard came off with a 46 1/3 to 44 2/3 triumph over the Army trackmen at West Point Saturday afternoon by virtue of a win in the one lap relay and six much-needed points in the broad jump. Valuable points in the hurdles, the pole vault, and the high jump early in the afternoon kept the Mikkolamen close to the Cadets until the last two events...
Injuries and probation have stripped Coach Mikkola's squad of most of its running talent, except in the sprints, so Harvard does not have any sure points in the mile, the two mile, or the long relays. If the visiting Crimson trackmen can make any sort of a showing in these races, the meet will be theirs...