Word: eckel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team crown went to Michigan State, with 86 points. The Spartans' second straight victory, and fifth in the past 10 years, retired the championship cup. Cornell, paced by Dave Eckel, who finished sixth, and Mike Midler, fourteenth, recorded 125 points for fourth place. Yale was the next Ivy finisher, with 336 points for eleventh place...
...been expected beforehand that Mike Midler and Dave Eckel of Cornell, and the Crimson's Pete Reider would finish among the top five runners. Harvard's hopes for victory were thought to depend on its placing at least three men ahead of the third Cornell finisher...
...worked out, Midler took second, Eckel third, and Reider fifth. But the all-important third man for the Ithacans, Nat Cravener, was seventh, well ahead of the varsity's Dave Norris, Dyke Benjamin, and Jim Schlaeppi. These three finished eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth...
...mile mark, the Cornell runners, Midler and Eckel, moved into second and third places, with Iglesias dropping back to fourth, and Reider to fifth. The order of the top five did not change over the last half of the five-mile race...
...varsity's stiffest opposition should come from Cornell, Yale, and Army. Cornell has lost only to the Elis--and this on a day when its two best runners, Mike Midler and Dave Eckel, were stricken with flu. The Crimson, of course, beat Yale last week, but the meet was very close, and might well have gone the other...