Bio:
The 1932-33 Redbirds ski team played a major role in making McGill an international skiing power. They endured an eight-day voyage by boat, train, horse-drawn carriage to St. Moritz, Switzerland and stunned Europe by winning an 18k cross-country ski race for the British Langlauf Club championship.
They followed that with a second-place finish at an international European university ski meet slalom in Corviglia, Switzerland, and then was victorious at the Kandahar trophy race known as the Akademische (the closest thing to a world championship tournament at a time when professional competitive skiing was unknown).
Competing against two universities from Italy, two from Switzerland, plus one apiece from Austria, Norway, Great Britain and Yugoslavia, McGill came in first overall.
The squad was composed of Harry Pangman (coach), George Jost (coach-asst. manager), Frederick Taylor (asst. manager), Stirling Maxwell (manager), Jack Houghton (captain), Frank Campbell, Walter Dorken, Peter Renold and Bill Ball.
The 1932-33 Ski Team
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The 1932-33 ski team played a major role in making McGill an international skiing power. They endured an eight-day voyage by boat, train, horse-drawn carriage to St. Moritz, Switzerland and stunned Europe by winning an 18k cross-country ski race for the British Langlauf Club championship, followed by a second-place finish at an international European university ski meet slalom in Corviglia, Switzerland, and victory at the Kandahar trophy race known as the Akademische (the closest thing to a world championship tournament at a time when professional competitive skiing was unknown).
Competing against two universities from Italy, two from Switzerland, plus one apiece from Austria, Norway, Great Britain and Yugoslavia, McGill came in first overall. The squad was composed of Harry Pangman (coach), George Jost (coach-asst. manager), Frederick Taylor (asst. manager), Stirling Maxwell (manager), Jack Houghton (captain), Frank Campbell, Walter Dorken, Peter Renold and Bill Ball.
