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Coach Mikkola has promised that this race will be one of the hardest that Crimson harriers have ever run in the past few years, but the Playfair runners seem to have a little too much power to be seriously threatened by anyone that Princeton or Yale can show...
...this race two years ago that Bob Playfair ran Bonthron into the ground in the last hundred yards and won the race by a margin of six seconds over the first Yale man to place. Last year also Playfair won the race, and today he will go out for his third consecutive win, which should make a record of some sort...
Toledo is sending a six man team to the east, headed by Captain Fred De shelter is expected to furnish ample opposition to Bob Playfair and to Henry O. Marcy, II '37, who was the second Harvard man to finish in the triangular meet with Dartmouth and Now Hampshire...
...Besides Playfair the Harvard team will be composed of Francis M. Rivinus, Jr. '38, Henry O. Marcy, III '37, William H. Wright, Jr. '88, Eugene H. Walker '37, Leonard C. Leen, '36, John M. Lovejoy '37, Alexander C. Northrop '38, Charles C. Worth '37, Cyrus C. DeCoster, Jr. '37, and John R. O'Neill...
...closer examination of Jaakko's squad, a good basis for optimism can be found. Bob Playfair, pace-setter and captain of the Crimson pack, broke the HYP tape last year and was undefeated until he sunk spike in the Van Cortlandt Park Intercollegiate track. It was there that hills, the old Crimson cross country bugaboo, proved to be too stiff a handicap and forced him back to twentieth place. This year, however, Bob has been leading his teammates over the grassy slopes of the Brookline Country Club, loping over bunkers with apparent case and utter disregard of the Brookline Motor...