Early, pre-season snows in northern New England and Canada plus poor ski-ing conditions around Cambridge before vacation proved a handicap to the ski team and skidded them into sixth place among ten competitors at the annual intercollegiate meet at Lake Placid over New Years.

December 30, the first day of the three day meet, the Crimson contingent raised hopes high with second among team scores in the slalom and fourth in the downhill. Gorry Genn took third and Bill Wasserman fifth among the 40 contestants in the slalom and Larry Griffin copped seventh in the downhill.

Crimson Hopes Spilled

But in the next two days, Harvard dropped considerably. Captain Graham Taylor ran ninth in the gruelling seven mile cross country race. In the jumping, Griffin flow the distance for eight place. The last event of the meet was a paper event, scored by combining the jumping and cross country records of each college.

Team standings were as follows: St. Larence, Queens, Meine, Cornell, Syracuse, Harvard, R.P.I., Pean State, Williams, Brown.