Skiers Slate Three Meets For Vacation

Three meets scheduled for the Christmas vacation will sweep the Crimson skiers into action for the first time this season when they coast down the slopes and hurdle the jumps at Franconia, Lake Placid, and Bear Mountain during the recess.

Captain Graham Taylor, Jerry Gens, Laurie Griffin, Sewell Faulkner, and George Shedd, all of them repeaters from last year, are expected to carry the Crimson banner again this year.

The Franconia, New Hampshire cross country and slalom races will lift the lid on the eastern racing season Saturday and Sunday with 50 contestants from eastern colleges expected in the langlauf, 100, in the slalom, and 30 inches of snow on Franconia's Cannon Mountain. The seven-mile cross country race is slated for Saturday in Franconia Notch while the slalom, a 1.8 mile affair down the mountain trail, will be held Sunday.

Individual Honors

While the Franconia races will offer individual honors, the Lake Placid meet, an inter-collegiate affair scheduled from Monday, December 29 to New Year's Day, will be held on a team basis. Four events, cross country, downhill racing, jumping, and slalom plus a combination of the cross country and jumping, are planned. Each team can enter four men in each event, with the top three scoring. Last year, ten colleges, including Coach Bill Halsey's first post-war team, participated in the Lake Placid runnings.

The squad will round out its holiday program when it competes in the Torger Tokle Memorial Jump at Bear Mountain on January 4.