Word: 69th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pottetti was the only Crimson runner who managed to escape the crush of the crowded field. Keith Colburn finished 69th after running an uneven race. He fell back and then spurted forward severaltimes. The course, a mile longer than the usual intercollegiate distance, probably hindered the speedy Colburn as much as it did anyone...
...awarded the Silver Star and Croix de guerre for his heroism in the trenches of France as a U.S. Army chaplain during World War I. Even before he came to Holy Cross in 1932, succeeding the late Father Francis P. Duffy (who won fame with the "Fighting 69th" Regiment back when that was an honorable number), McCaffrey honed his appreciation of law enforcement as chaplain to New York's Roman Catholic policemen...
LIEUT. PETER K. VAN WINKLE 69th Infantry N.Y.A.N.G. Manhattan...
Erich W. Segal '58, former Dunster House tutor, ran with Hewlett most of the way, and carried-on to finish 69th...
...Morio Shigematsu, 25: the 69th Boston Marathon, pit-patting over the grueling 26-mi. 385-yd. course in 2 hrs. 16 min. 33 sec. to clip a full 2 min. off the record set two years ago by Belgium's Aurele Vandendriessche; at Boston. Shigematsu led a parade of his countrymen across the line; Japanese took second, third, fifth and sixth places as well. Vandendriessche wound up fourth; first U.S. runner to finish was Ralph Buschmann in seventh place...