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Dyke Benjamin fulfilled Crimson hopes, running to a distinguished victory and a record time of 25:21 on the Franklin Park course. Yale's Bachrach trailed Benjamin and Jed Fitzgerald for half of the race, but finished nearly half a minute behind the Crimson captain...
...five runners, and until the last half mile of the race, they had succeeded in spitting up the leaders. At this point, however, when the Crimson runners were feeling the pace, Yale's Carroll and Morrison slowly moved up into fourth and seventh places, passing the point-makers. Fitzgerald, who had run himself out following Benjamin eary in the race, fell back to ninth, giving the harriers sixth, eighth, ninth, and twelfth places...
Dyke Benjamin's sheer ability to "win races" should give the Crimson an initial advantage. And Jed Fitzgerald, who has been pressing Benjamin to faster and faster times, is predicted to be close behind...
...harriers' toughest task will be to break up a knot of five Yale runners whose previous times rate them faster than anyone except Benjamin and Fitzgerald. "We're just going to have to put out more," says Assistant Coach Ed Stowell...
After Benjamin, six Crimson runners finished in succession to complete the lopsided team victory. Senior Willie Thompson took second place with a time of 27 min., 21 sec. and sophomore Jed Fitzgerald, the other member of the Crimson's big three, finished third. From there on in, it was Jim Schlaeppi, Ed Martin, Mac Brown, Buster LaFrance and Dave Donaldson, in that order...