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Notre Dame's football coach-every schoolboy knows his name is Frank Leahy-began the 1946 season by overcoming a serious handicap: a single pair of eyes, operating at ground level, could not possibly watch the whole vast Notre Dame processing plant. So Leahy (rhymes with "may he") built a tower, 30 feet high and bristling with loudspeakers, smack in the middle of Notre Dame's three-gridiron practice field. From the tower he looks down on an operation that is as carefully calculated, as extremely complicated as the Studebaker assembly line in nearby South Bend...
Leading a field of 56, Oliver Filley crossed the tape 250 yards ahead of his nearest contender in the University cross country handicap yesterday afternoon on the Charles River course. Although he won the race itself hands down, his actual time was 21:10 which put him in sixth place according to the stop watch. Best time place was taken by Herb Pratt, who ran the 3.7 mile course...
Filley started in the class II handicap group with a 30 second handicap, while second and third placers, Watson Baker and Joseph Leeming, both began the race in the first class with no handicap...
Promptly at 4:15 o'clock the first contingent of nine harriers strode up the river trail from behind Newell Boat House. Following in quick succession the five other handicap classes took off from the line with 30 second, 50 second, 1:10, 1:50, and 3:10 handicaps respectively...
...clock this afternoon Coach Jaakko Mikkola will send the first wave of his record-sized 107-man cross country squad on the 3.7 mile University Intramural Handicap. Starting from behind the Newell Boat House, the event will serve as a time trial for every man, and the times of the first ten will be an indication of the calibre of this year's Varsity...