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Pennsylvania--Seniors Karl Thornton, Julio Piazza and Elliott Rogers: juniors...
...Quakers contributed seven of the team's 12 members. Heading the majority contingent is freshman Dave Merrick, the individual Heptagonal champion. Making the squad for the second straight year are Penn's Karl Thornton, Bob Childs and Julio Piazza...
...Cornell's Phil Ritson and Don Alexander were setting the pace, trying gamely to offset the awesome Penn depth. But by then, the race was already reduced to a team battle for second place. Five Quaker runners--freshman Dave Merrick, sophomore Denis Fikes, junior Bob Childs and seniors Julio Piazza and Karl Thornton--were clustered behind the Cornell men and Koerner, and following them was a group that included a comfortable number of Penn shirts...
...fallen back to ninth, and Merrick had opened a lead of 100 yards over Thornton and Ritson. At the last, Ritson outkicked Thornton for second, but Merrick held on to win the race in 24:31.8, breaking Doug Hardin's meet record by more than three seconds. Thornton, Childs, Piazza and Fikes swept third through sixth places, and Koerner placed tenth, assuring himself of a berth on the All-Ivy squad. But the next Harvard men were far back--Quirk (23rd), Fred Linsk (35th), Marshall Jones (37th), Jerry Hines (40th), Tom New (41st), Rojas (55th), Nat Guild (66th...
...Cemetery Hill, where Harvard had broken Penn three years ago with a mile and a half to go, Thornton, Merrick and Childs began pulling away. Fikes and O'Conner followed, and with less than half a mile remaining, Piazza overtook Rojas as well. Thornton, Fikes, Merrick and Childs finished together in 25:22.8, with O'Conner and Piazza less than 10 seconds behind...