Word: losses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...losing season, but it might as well have been." Thus coach Bill McCurdy evaluated the 1959 cross country campaign, the worst in his long and successful reign. In dual and triangular meets, the varsity had a seemingly respectable 4-3 record, but the Crimson actually won only when a loss was inconceivable...
Comebacks Follow Brown Loss...
...comeback decision over Penn and Columbia, following a crushing 18-51 loss to Brown, was fairly impressive, however. Competing against Penn's Ernest Tracy and Roy Rissinger, two of the East's better runners, the varsity rose to the occasion and whipped the Quakers, 23 to 43. Columbia trailed with 74. Fitzgerald, after coming in 13th against the Bruins, rallied for a fine second-place showing and almost caught Tracy with a stirring last-mile charge...
...Princeton near the end of the season, the defeat was the first after seven wins and three ties, and it seemed sure to knock the varsity out of the Ivy League race. Yet there were no tears, no recriminations, no vows of "we'll get 'em next week." The loss was accepted with the same equanimity that marked all the previous successes. In fact, the only time the squad allowed itself a display of emotion came after the Yale game, when the players hoisted coach Munro on their shoulders for a few brief seconds...
...first place by one-half game, the Quakers must win the traditional Thanksgiving Day finale in order to cop its first League title. A loss for Penn (5-1) would mean that Dartmouth (5-1-1) would become the first Ivy team to win the title twice...