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Snowed under by one of the hottest cross country team in the East, the Crimson harriers went down to defeat by Rhode Island State and Connecticut in their second effort of the season in Franklin Park yesterday afternoon...
Coming back from its second place defeat of last week, the Varsity cross country squad will journey to Franklin Park this afternoon to meet Rhode Island State and Connecticut on the 4.25 mile course. Coach Jaakko Mikkola is sending in a full slate of 13 Varsity entries and eight Freshmen. This will be the first intercollegiate workout for the Yardlings, some of whom ran close competition to the Varsity harriers in the University handicap two weeks...
Giving the Freshmen a five minute lead, the Varsities will start their great circle of the park. Crimson Varsity entries for tomorrow are: Huna Rosenfeld, Frank Gurley, Charles Worth, John Cogan, Peter Morgan, T. H. Walnut, Hal May, Ray Brown, Norman Murch, Dave Groshong, Peter Ways, Francis MacNutt, and Alexander Hoagland. Bill O'Connor is a possible starter but has been out of the races recently with a bad foot...
...with pixies and things. All they want is to build a Greek Theatre on a piece of property Miss O'Brien owns. She won't let them do it, on account of the pixies and things live there. A compromise is finally reached, the land is made a park, and the theatre doesn't get built, which is too bad, especially considering that the pixies and things will live happily forever after...
With a team still in the training stage, the Rhode Island State-Connecticut meet at Franklin Park tomorrow looks like a tough nut to crack. Rhode Island is a school that takes cross country very seriously and this season's team has already crushed Springfield College 20 to 41, a rout in a cross country two-way meet. Connecticut is an unknown quantity, but Jaakko is confident that this meet will give the team the necessary experience to face Dartmouth next week and the Yale-Princeton triangular in a fortnight...