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Donald M. Allison, Jr.; Cortlandt A. Bassett; Herbert G. Bradlee; James J. Brady. Jr.; Herbert F. Cahoon; Alan D. Conger; Gerald E. Deakin; Frederic S. Dean, Jr.; Dwight Dickinson; Harry H. Donnally, Jr.; Reaumur S. Donnally; David S. Grey; James W. Harrison; Theodore L. Hazlett; Jr.; James A. Hermann; Edwin Hewitt; Harry F. Hinckley, Jr.; Gordon L. Hough; William T. Hull; William C. Hurtt; George J. Lee; William B. Locke; John H. Loeb; George B. Lyons; Frank L. McLanathan; Edwin W. Peterson; George S. Phalen; Thomas M. Richardson; William H. Rines; Daniel Sciarra; Robert J. Seder; Edwin S. Seldon; Ernest...
...pistol crack set 129 pairs of legs into motion. For 200 yd. the pack of runners awkwardly angled across the springy turf like a vast centipede, then spread-eagled as the pace slackened. The legs plodded up Van Cortlandt Park's hilly course, coasted around to the starting field. Spectators, paying little attention to the wiry, green-jerseyed leader, No. 129, carefully watched Pennsylvania's smooth-striding Gene Venzke in 15th place...
...smooth course of the Charles, previous Crimson harrier outfits have been unbeatable, but with only two exceptions the teams sent to Van Cortlandt have turned in consistently worse performances than their records warranted...
Playfair furnished an example of this last year, when, after having trimmed Woodland, Minor, and Canning of Yale in the H-Y-P meet, he trailed them to the tape along the rough Van Cortlandt course. Workouts in Brookline had been expected to obviate a similar upset this year, and until the news of Playfair's illness, Jaakko's team looked good for a victory...
...closer examination of Jaakko's squad, a good basis for optimism can be found. Bob Playfair, pace-setter and captain of the Crimson pack, broke the HYP tape last year and was undefeated until he sunk spike in the Van Cortlandt Park Intercollegiate track. It was there that hills, the old Crimson cross country bugaboo, proved to be too stiff a handicap and forced him back to twentieth place. This year, however, Bob has been leading his teammates over the grassy slopes of the Brookline Country Club, loping over bunkers with apparent case and utter disregard of the Brookline Motor...