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Middle distance runner Darlene-Beck-ford took an unusual route to a usual finish. Beckford, who likes to dit back early in the race, proved she can run from the front equally well, breaking her track record in the 1500 meters with a time...
Junior whiz kid Darlene Beckford, who has never lost an individual race on Harvard's indoor track and who holds Harvard's record in the mile, two mile, 440 and 880--will be back to work her old magic. For the first time in two years, Beckford is going into the track season uninjured and healthy, and judging from her stellar 18th place finish in last month's cross-country Nationals, she could be better than ever this year...
...Harvard harriers were led by the stellar performances of junior Darlene Beckford and freshman sensation Kate Wiley, who placed 19th and 25th with times of 18:27 and 18:34 respectively By placing among the top 25 of the 193 finishing runners. Beckford and Wiley were named to the Division I All-American team, making Harvard the first Ivy League school ever to have two team members on the honorary squad...
Wiley--who normally excels on hilly courses--was running laboriously after the first steep incline, and then was passed by Beckford on an uphill just short of the two-mile mark. Beckford then went on to pass numerous other runners on the flat downhill stretches in what coach John Babington called "one of the most exceptional races of her season...
...Beckford, who had finished 90th and 36th in her previous two years in competition, said afterwards, she was surprised at how good she had felt during the race. "I was huffing and puffing after the first hill, but I had a lot left towards the end. In the past years I could have crawled across the finish line...