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...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...
...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...
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...
...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...