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...attention Baker and Shaw have been getting has obscured equally fine performances by equally deserving members of the team. Doug Hardin's 8:44.2 two-mile run at Brown, for example, places him among the country's top five two-milers. And sophomore Keith Colburn may surprise his miler teammates-and-run the lot into the ground once he shakes his persistent injuries...
...perhaps unfair that Baker and Shaw dominated the limelight--unfair but understandable. No matter how fast someone runs the two-mile or the two-mile relay, or how far someone puts the shot or how high someone pole vaults, the four-minute miler will be the hero of track and field. Even though dozens of runners have broken four minutes since Bannister and the world record is now an impossible 3:51.1, four minutes remains the magic mark, the measure of the miler's mettle. And everyone seems to think that one of these days either Baker or Shaw...
Villanova, anchored by sub-four minute miler Dave Patrick, has beaten Harvard twice in the last two weeks, at the BAA Meet and in the Philadelphia Track Classic, Michigan, probably the fastest of the five teams, has run a 7:27 two-mile relay...
Shaw, the fastest miler (4:03.4) in Harvard history, was Harvard's only double winner. His second victory came in the two-mile, which he coursed...
...other Harvard records fell in the Garden Saturday night. Freshman weightman Ed Nosal, competing against varsity athletes, hurled the 35-pounder 56' 6 3/4" for a fourth-place finish and a new freshman indoor mark. Yardling miler Bob Enscoe trimmed 13 seconds off his best time to date and a second and a half off the freshman record in running 4:13.9 to a third place finish in the New England mile...