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Although outclassed by Rhode Island's almost legendary cross-country team, Jaakko Mikkola's distance runners yesterday succeeded in finishing ahead of Holy Cross in a triangular meet at Franklin Park. The final score: Rhode Island, 24; Harvard, 51; Holy Cross...
...Coach Jaakko Mikkola will valiantly send his varsity cross-country team in quest of its first win this afternoon, but the harriers will be bumping into the best team in the East--Rhode Island State--and reasonably strong Holy Cross in a three-cornered meet at Brookline's Franklin Park...
...Jaakko Mikkola's defeat - hardened cross-country squad opens the 1949 season against Tufts this afternoon at Franklin Park in Boston. The freshmen, meanwhile, will take on the 1953 Tufts squad is what will be for most of the Crimson runners their first race...
...hold an overall advantage of 34 victories and 10 losses in Harvard-Yale competition, a dangerous trend has come to the fore in the last few seasons. It won't endanger the Crimson's lead, in the immediate future, anyway, but Yale seems to be narrowing the gap and Jaakko regretfully reports that this year the Eli's have a fair chance of winning the intercollegiate championship. Since good cross-country teams usually lead to good track teams and poor cross-country teams don't such a situation doesn't bode well for the spring either...
...Jaakko will be able to tell more about his squad after the University Handicaps tomorrow. These serve as time trials and determine the personnel who are likely to compete in the opening race against Tufts a week from tomorrow...