Word: colburn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Formerly undefeated Dartmouth could not keep up with a Crimson pace which produced six of the top seven places, Captain Keith Colburn, winning his first varsity cross-country race, lowered the course record by more than a minute with a time of 28:47.2. Sophomore Mike Koerner finished within eight seconds of Colburn, and Tom Spengler, who won last week's race at Cornell, came in third...
...Crimson victory was assured at the one-mile mark, Colburn and Koerner, who ran together for most of the race, made their move on Potter after two miles...
Spengler and Colburn both looked good said McCurdy. "We had hoped earlier that Shaw and Pottetti would come along and looks like that may be happening now." he said...
After the first mile, Colburn dominated the running. In a series of personal challenges, he sprited in front of the Cornell runners several times, forcing them to run at his pace. Near the three-mile mark Cornell's Ritson collapsed and didn't finish the race, while his teammate. Alexander dropped back to seventh...
...three-mile mark, Harvard was assured of a team victory. Colburn moved back to third, and Spengler and Koerner took over. Spengler sprinted the last mile and finished just seconds ahead of Koerner and Colburn...