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Dartmouth College student Fred Harris (1888-1961) founded the Dartmouth Outing Club in 1909, and so became "the man who put America on skis" [8]. The Nashua (NH) Telegraph notes that in 1914, a group of Dartmouth students travelled to Canada to compete against McGill University in the first collegiate ski race. [9]
The Dartmouth College impact on skiing continues. The college maintains its own ski area, the Dartmouth Skiway, a 100-acre (0.40 km2) skiing facility located over two mountains near the Hanover campus in Lyme Center, New Hampshire, [4] that serves as the winter practice grounds for the nationally dominant Dartmouth Ski Team.
He participated in all four skiing events during his Dartmouth College years and was captain of the Ski Team in 1935. During World War II , Sel joined Dick Durrance , another Dartmouth graduate, to assist with Colonel Tappen's mission to train a large group of parachutists from Fort Benning , Georgia.
The Dartmouth Skiway is a ski area in the northeastern United States, in Lyme, New Hampshire. Located about twenty minutes northeast of Dartmouth College , it has thirty trails from easiest (green circle) to most difficult (black diamond) on over one hundred acres (40 ha) of skiable area.
Robinson Hall, home to the Dartmouth Outing Club offices. The Dartmouth Outing Club (DOC) is a collegiate outing club in the United States. [1] Proposed in 1909 by Dartmouth College student Fred Harris to "stimulate interest in out-of-door winter sports", the club soon grew to encompass the college's year-round outdoor recreation and has had a major role in defining Dartmouth College.
The Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted Tuesday to unionize — the first Division I college athletics team to hold a public unionization effort.
Proctor attended Dartmouth College and was the son of a Dartmouth professor. [2] He was captain of the 1927 Dartmouth ski team. [2] With Rockwell Stephens he wrote a book, The Art of Skiing, in 1933. [3] Proctor moved to California and became the head of ski operations at Yosemite National Park for 20 years. [2]
The Dartmouth men's basketball team voted to unionize Tuesday in an unprecedented step toward forming the first labor union for college athletes and another attack on the NCAA's deteriorating ...