Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YORK, October 3-Penn's Julio Piazza captured first place with relative case, but Harvard's cross country team, with only 27 seconds separating its first and fifth men, came across virtually en masse behind Piazza to win the important meet, 21-34, today in Van Cortlandt Park...
...Piazza was clearly the man to beat as the three teams started out across a wet, grassy stretch of the course. The opening pace was slow, however and Crimson captain Keith Colburn took the early lead. followed closely by Piazza and a group of Harvard runners...
Several times Colburn slowed a little to let the Penn sophomore set the pace. but Pizza turned down the offer every time. At the two-mile point, Piazza and Colburn were running together with Mike Koerner. Tom Spengler. and John Heyburn, all of Harvard, close behind...
...Then Piazza made his move. and Colburn let him go. Harvard had more or less conceded first to Piazza in prerace strategy: the important thing was grouping. "He went out on the flat. the one place where I didn't expect it." Colburn said later...
...this point that coach Bill McCurdy was most concerned. "You had to realize that Piazza was a strong first and that their second group wasn't far behind our top runners." he pointed...