Word: eckel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell is bothered by depth problems. Behind Midler, they have Dave Eckel, last year's champion, but a disappointment all year. Two sophomores, Charlie Hill and Nat Cravener, are not too far behind Eckel, while number five man Kirk McCreary is doubtful...
Running on a muddy Van Cortland Park course in New York yesterday, the favored Big Red captured first, second, fourth, eighth, and twenty-first places as two sophomores, Dave Eckel and Mike Midler led the field. Pete Reider, who finished fifth, was the first Crimson runner in the five mile race...
Reider ran the course in 26 minutes and 16 seconds, half a minute behind Eckel. The other Crimson runners, Ralph Perry, Al Wills, Dave McLean, and Ken Wilson, came in 11th, 14th, 24th, and 31st respectively. Don French, captain of the harriers, dropped out after the third mile...
...with 36 points and Harvard with 85 came Yale, Army, Navy, and Penn. Trailing further behind were Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Brown. However, Doug Brew of the eighth place Hanover team, led the field for the first three and a half miles and finished third, only 20 seconds behind Eckel...
...undefeated Big Red not only boasts two-time defending individual champion, Jack Rosenbaum, but has two sophomores who have beaten him frequently this season, and have finished ahead of all opposing harriers. Mike Midler and Dave Eckel are the pair who join with Rosenbaum to give Cornell a trio that may very well take the first three places...