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...bringing Bill Martin, their best 1000-yard man, to run in it. But he lost to Joel Peters of Harvard, who broke the tape with a time of 113.1 seconds. Consequently, the expected B.C. 1-2 finish in the 1000-yard event did not pan out as Bill Okerman and Wayne Curtis took second and third places, respectively for Harvard...
Harvard also swept the 600 and 1000-yard runs behind Joel Peter's 1:16.0 time in the first and Bill Okerman's 2:18.9 clocking in the second...
Freshman harrier Peter Fitzsimmons would have qualified for the nationals on an individual basis by placing 30th in the qualifying meet. As it turned out, according to Okerman, a UMass runner who placed 42nd in the qualifying meet behind Fitzsimmons was sent to the finals by his school, and garnered All-American honors on the basis of his performance in the finals...
...Okerman was somewhat less sympathetic...
...would have given anything to run in the NCAAs," Okerman said. "It means a lot to an athlete to qualify in such a meet, and the fact remains, we did make the qualifying standards," he added. "It's just a real disappointment...