Decorah High School - Viking Yearbook (Decorah, IA)

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are taking an active interest in sports and openf authorities have done much to encourage this in spite of this, manq sportsmen and sportswof Some of the outstanding names iust before the an American citizen, Birger Ruud lskierlg Ivar Crown Prince Olav is also a first-class sports- in the Olqmpic Games and as a ski-jumper in the ball also has developed into a real national summer westward, and have the sea in their blood, so to seafaring nation. Before Leiv Eiriksson discovered settlements on Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe exploration. The Dikings died, but not their dangerous exploits of Fridtiof Nansen in his fa'- Tlorwegian, Roald Amundsen, explored the north- South Pole. Ilorwegians have also been pioneers Admiral Hialmar RiiserfLarsen, now Commander- participated in expeditions bu plane and airship It was a Tlorwegian, Bernt Balchen, now a Colo- the plane in which Admiral Richard E. Bqrd flew ffl l 5 X if l l , 521:--n 5 fpazw,-11.2 SI- 'D l 'xt N 'B . , I ,..X 91 E 9 K S 'f , K L Zi X ,za Xffxs- XX f X ff it gf ,YY I ..-Z

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Q, at is-w gmail. ..v Ilorweqians of all aqes and classes air life. Both the qovernment and local popular movement. All sports in Ilorwaq are amateur. men have attained international repute. war were Sonja Henie lfiqure-slcaterl, now Ballanqrud Iskaterlg Pete Sandstesl lboxerl. man and has attained merit as a qachtsman famous annual competition at Holmenkollen. Foot'- sport. In Horwaq soccer is plaqed exclusivelq. most Ilorweqians live near the sea. Theq look speak. The Norweqians have of necessitu become a America in the near 1000, Horsemen had made Islands, Scotland, Enqland, and Ireland. The Tlorweqians have alwaqs been pioneers in spirit. It provided the impetus for the peaceful but mous Fram Expeditions to the Arctic. Another lDest passaqe and in 1911 was the first man on the of aerial explorations. Roald Amundsen and Reara infChief of the Roqal Ilorweqian Air Force, led or to the Arctic and the Antarctic from 1925 onward. nel in the llnited States Armq Air Force, who piloted over the South Pole.

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