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...Walt Hewlett overcame a snowbound starting position at East Lansing, Mich., to place fifth in the NCAA cross-country meet, the highest finish by a Harvard runner in the 26-year history of the race...
After the race, Harvard coach Bill McCurdy said that Hewlett, who finished 12th last year, might have won this time if it hadn't been for the elements. All the runners had to fight scattered snow and slush, a 36-degree temperature, and 17-m.p.h. winds, but Hewlett got a particularly bad deal...
...Hewlett spent most of the four-mile race fighting for position and trying to avoid the slipping and sliding runners in front of him. He was the 15th man to pass the three-mile mark, but once he found running room he moved up quickly and was gaining on the leaders when the race ended...
Walt's fifth-place finish climaxed the greatest season any Harvard runner has had since 1928. Hewlett won all eight regular season meets and the Heptagonals and finished second behind Georgetown's Joe Lynch in the IC4A...
Bill Clark of Notre Dame finished 50 yards behind Banton in second place; Jim Murphy of the Air Force Academy was third and Dave Wighton of Colorado University finished fourth, 0:06 ahead of Hewlett. Walt's time was 20:24.3. Joe Lynch of Georgetown, who beat Hewlett in the IC4A's last week, was eighth...