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...Harvard win over Yale today would represent the first time in the Indoor Athletic Building's 43-year history that the Crimson has topped the Elis in the IAB, the end of an 11-year winless drought, and only the third win for Harvard over Yale in the last half century...
...undefeated Harvard track team, flying high after last weekend's superb victory in the GBC's, returns to earth and Yale's indoor dirt track this afternoon when it faces the Elis and Princeton for the Big Three Crown...
...Madison Square Garden. There, the director of the U.S. Olympic Invitational Track Meet announced that it would not be played at the event. Thereupon the Garden switchboard lit up like a scoreboard. After receiving "irate calls from all over the country," the meet officials set a new indoor record for backpedaling. They would be "delighted," they claimed, "to continue the custom" of anthem playing. Twenty New York councilmen suddenly put on their best red-white-and-blue suits and introduced a probably unconstitutional bill making it unlawful to "commence any sporting event...without first playing the national anthem...
Nick Leone, who has developed into the team's premier quarter miler, took first place in his specialty, beating a quality field in a good indoor time of 49.4. He beat Michael Black of St. Josephs by one tenth second while outdistancing such runners as Ed Roberts of the Philadelphia Pioneers and Doran Marcus of traditional track power East Tennessee State...
...Harvard captain Bob Clayton did not fare as well as expected Clayton who has already won the one half mile on the indoor track circuit, finished fifth in a relatively disappointing time of 1:57.2. The winner, Ken Sparks of the University of Chicago, took the event...