Word: benjamin
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...Dyke Benjamin's near-record 4:12.1 performance in the mile led the varsity track team to an 81 2/3-58 1/3 triumph over an undermanned Dartmouth squad yesterday at the Stadium. The Crimson took ten first places on its way to victory, and its final margin might have been considerably greater if coach Bill McCurdy had decided to run up the score...
...mile, Benjamin had the aid of a new opponent--half-miler Art Cahn, running his first race at the mile distance. Cahn stayed with Benjamin through a 61.0 quarter and a 2:06 880, and he even passed his teammate momentarily midway in the third lap. But Benjamin pulled away, practically sprinting the entire last lap, and finished 75 yards in front...
Previously chosen Crimson qualifiers were Jim Doty in the hammer, Hank Abbot in the shot, Tom Blodgett in the pole vault, Skip Pescosolido in the javelin, Frank Yeomans in the 100, Albie Gordon in the 440, Joel Landau in the hurdles, and Dyke Benjamin in the twomile...
Mullin started out in the mile as if he were going for a four-minute effort, passing the 440 mark in 60.0 and hitting the 880 in 2:04. His time at the half, in fact, was a full eight seconds better than Dyke Benjamin's fatally slow pace in the varsity race. Mullin tired toward the end, but he held on for the record...
Crimson 880 man Art Cahn ran the best race of his life, a 1:53.4, but he bowed to Yale's Tommy Carroll, who set a meet record with 1:52.0. Besides Landau, the only other Crimson runner to take a first was Benjamin, with a meet record of 9:12.0. in the two mile. The Yale mile relay quartet racked up still another ecord with a 3:16.6 performance in the mile relay...