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Lean limbed youths from 15 eastern colleges, last week bunched at a mark in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City. A half hour later, William Cox of Penn State had drawn the bunch out into a thin, ragged, gasping line. He traveled six miles in 30 minutes 36 4/5 seconds to win the intercollegiate cross country championship. Finishing five runners in the first 30, Penn State won the team championship. Another Penn Stater won the freshman chase, and the Penn State freshman team also won freshman team honors. Thus Penn State secured four championships; no college ever did that before...
Battling to a splendid finish against the strongest distance runners in the country, Captain J. L. Reid '29 took third place in the Intercollegiate cross-country races in which 19 colleges competed on the Van Cortlandt Park course in New York yesterday, and led his team, with a score of 60, to a second place in the cross-country classic, which was won by Penn State, with a score...
...mile time trial yesterday afternoon to determine the team which will be entered in the Intercollegiate cross-country races at Van Cortlandt Park, New York, on November 21, six men finished under ten minutes; led by Captain J. L. Reid, '29, who covered the two mile course in 9 minutes 36 seconds...
...decisive victory over Yale yesterday, with the two clean sweep records over Dartmouth and Massachusetts Agricultural College, makes the University cross-country team a decided favorite in the Intercollegiate races to be held in Van Cortlandt Park, New York, on November 21. Reid will give Cox of Pennsylvania strong competition for first place, according to Coach Jaakko Mikkola...
...individual stars who will vie for the Intercollegiate prize at Van Cortlandt Park are Captain E. C. Haggerty '27, Captain M. L. Smith of Yale, J. C. Loucks of Syracuse, W. J. Cox of Penn State, Captain Karl Auer of Dartmouth, Horace Betson of Cornell, Forrest Taylor of Maine, and Russell Payne of Pennsylvania. They comprise one of the greatest collections of cross country luminaries ever to clash on one course...