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Outclassed by the strong and well-balanced Cornell team, the University harriers went down to a 42-64 defeat on the Belmont course Saturday. The feature of the race was the running of T. C. McDermott, the Ithacan captain, who, covering the course in 34 minutes, 23 3-5 seconds, came within less than a minute of breaking the record for the course made by Overton of Yale in 1914. J. W. Cambell, also of Cornell, crossed the tape 22 seconds later, leading B. Lewis '20 by a scant three yards...
McDermott and Lewis took the lead from the gun. As the race settled down Cambell and Stanton of Cornell and G. F. Wason '20 drew ahead of the mass of runners. After the three-mile mark Stanton and King, another Ithacan, passed Wason. From then on the leaders of the race kept their positions, except that Cambell wrested second place from Lewis in the last mile of the race. F. G. Bemis '22 ran splendidly, working up from the last group to eighth place. Coach Farrell, in speaking of the race, said that the team had showed great improvement since...
...well-rounded Ithacan team included several stars besides Captain Dresser. K. A. Mayer lived up to expectations by winning both the quarter-mile and half-mile. Smith also chalked up a double victory in both the hurdle events, followed each time by his running mate, J. M. Watt. Cornell was weak in field events, only securing 1 1-2 points by Ramsay's tying for fourth place in the high-jump, but her supremacy in track events was more than sufficient...
...Ithacan Track Men at Work...
Cornell's chief defect was a tendency to fumble, especially at critical moments, and an inability to follow the ball after a fumble. Two of the University's touchdowns were due to Ithacan fumbles and every time a Cornell player dropped the ball it was picked up by a Harvard man. The only time in the whole game that Cornell had a good chance to be dangerous it lost the ball on a fumble...