Word: baker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet of sacrifice for Harvard captain Jim Baker. Unchallenged in seven dual meets and the Greater Boston Championships, Baker went out at a killing clip over the first two miles to break up the Yale and Princeton blocks...
...first spot several times in the stretch, before Hardin streaked ahead with 250 yards to go and outkicked Shorter to the finish. It didn't look especially good for Harvard at that point, with no Crimson jersies in sight for a number of places other than the one covering Baker's heaving chest...
Princeton captain Al Andreini crossed the line third and fellow Tiger Eamon Downey followed him closely in fourth. Fifth was Yale's Steve Bittner and sixth Princeton's Richard Stafford. Baker finished, giving Coach Bill McCurdy reason to breathe again and then in a wondrous Crimson avalanche, junior Tim McLoone, senior Dick Howe and sophomore John Heyburn streaked home...
...wiry British captain Jim Baker, Greater Boston individual champion, Harvard has demolished seven straight dual meet opponents and last Tuesday rallied in the last two miles to win the Greater Boston Championships over five other area teams...
...Baker won by 12 seconds over Peter Hoss of Boston University with M.I.T.'s Ben Wilson third. In seventh place and second for Harvard was the gritty McLoone whose undiagnosable leg injuries were supposed to keep him out of action...