Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...margin was perilously little, because the Huskies had double-barreled power awaiting the 1500-meter run. It was not enough that co-captain Paul Organ had placed first in the 110-meter high hurdles (14.8) and second in the 400-meter intermediates, or that John Dweyer added second in the highs and Gary Schmidt won the intermediates...
John Chafee's strong 800-meter run, finishing little more than a second behind talented Husky Mark Lech (1:53.3) and Chris Niceodemus's last second shoot-the-gap, second-place finish in the 400-meter run proved too little...
Even an amazing one-two finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase from Reed Eichner (9:17.1) and Peter Fitzsimmons (9:17.4) fell short when the meet entered the closing minutes...
Crimson runners Ed Sheehan and Mark Meyer gave the 5000-meters an all-out effort, but John and Bob Flora, Northeastern's superb distance duo, raced to one-two status; and the afternoon was over, the Huskies ahead by six points with only the five-point 1600-meter rally remaining...
There were encouraging performances, especially in the hurdles and 200-meter runs; but as Crimson coach Bill McCurdy said. "You can't argue too much with our running--it's just that they were running faster...