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...early pace on the soggy course was slow and about four Harvard runners were out front with Piazza and Princeton's Eamon Downey. Halfway through the race. Colburn and Piazza were running shoulder-to-shoulder with Mike Koerner and Pottetti close behind...
Princeton's Rich Stafford, who finished less than 50 yards behind Piazza when they raced two weeks ago could also take the meet, as could his teammate. Eamon Downey...
McCurdy's strategy is to mercilessly dog the opposition's top two runners early in the race, hounding them with his Shaws and Spenglers until they burn themselves out. Last week, it was crucial for the Tigers to finish both Stafford and Downey in the top three, and Tom Yunck not far behind. By the second mile. Downey was finished. Stafford dropped out of contention a mile or so later, and the Crimson captured the first three places. with Colburn winning in record time. But in order to adopt that killing strategy you need depth. Harvard has it. and late...
After the first one-and-a-half mile loop, the pace began to wear down Downey and Yunek. Colburn and Koerner, with help from John Heyburn, then tried to break Stafford...
Princeton ran somewhat better than expected, but it could not place Downey and Stafford ahead of Harvard's top men, and the outcome was never in doubt. Colburn, who said that the early pace did not seem extremely fast, broke a record of 21:53 set last year by Yale's Frank Shorter...