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...YORK CITY--Julio Piazza rode back to LaGuardia Airport on the Harvard team bus. The managers gave him a roast beef sandwich, a package of cupcakes, and a can of soda. The Crimson runners were generally friendly to him. Actually, Piazza, who captained Pennsylvania's cross-country team last year, received much better treatment from Harvard than he and his Quaker teammates accorded the injury ridden Crimson harriers yesterday at Van Cortlandt Park...
Pennsylvania, equipped with six superb runners, all nearly equal in talent, employed the same bird-dogging tactics that worked beautifully for the Quakers last year, when they whipped Harvard 20-41. The four victors, plus teammates Frank O'Conner and Piazza, ran as a unit throughout the race, surrounding Harvard sophomore Rick Rojas and captain Mike Koerner, and matching them step for step during the first two miles of the 5.5 mile course...
...Quaker Julio Piazza won the race easily, but four Harvard runners destroyed Penn's depth and the Crimson took an easy victory. Last year, Penn used the same tactic, and although Harvard's Tom Spengler won without problem, no less than six Penn runners came in directly behind...
...Piazza, captain Karl Thornton, junior Bob Childs and Merrick finished in a dead heat for first place last weekend in a 15-50 victory over Lehigh and LaSalle, with Fikes close on their heels. They run naturally and well as a unit, and unless Harvard's Marshall Jones and John Quirk can pressure them, there is a distinct possibility that they can badger Rojas and Koerner out of contention...
...would be interesting to match Rojas and Piazza, or Koerner and Thornton, or any two head and head," McCurdy says. "But here, you're asking one man to run against five. The odds just aren't with...