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...Harvard harriers marooned Penn and Columbia on the five-mile moonscape known as Van Cortland Park in New York City yesterday. The Crimson defeated arch rival Penn 25-30 and outlasted the native New Yorkers 26-30 in the traditionally tightly run dual meet...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Runners Boot Quakers, Lions | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

...first three miles of the loop winding from the south side of the Broadway esplanade around the sandlot baseball diamonds and the historic Van Cortland family mansion, the pack was too tightly bunched to predict the final outcome...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Runners Boot Quakers, Lions | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

...orchards throughout New England, the Mclntosh, Red Delicious, Northern Spy and Cortland apples have been ripe for six weeks, ready to be trucked to markets round the country or sold to nearby roadside stands. Last week as the harvest drew to an end, growers were hard pressed to gather in their crop?worth more than $50 million to them?before the fruit started spoiling and dropping to the ground. The weather and the Federal Government had, in the Northeastern farmers' view, conspired to make this a doubly difficult year. A snowstorm last spring destroyed blossoms. Heavy rains in September made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Doubly Difficult Apple to Pluck | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...only squad the Crimson managed to edge was Brown, but once again the harriers trailed Columbia and Penn, who beat Harvard in a tri-meet earlier in the season at Van Cortland...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Harriers Fizzle in Heptagonals | 11/5/1977 | See Source »

With things going so badly for the harriers, Sheehan and Co. might as well have stopped awhile and rummaged in the woods for some golf balls themselves. You can usually find some vintage Spaldings because Van Cortland golf course, founded in 1896, is the oldest public links in America...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Harriers Fizzle in Heptagonals | 11/5/1977 | See Source »

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