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...Cleveland State University prepared to host its third NCAA championship meet, consensus favored Ray Bussard's Tennessee Volunteers to repeat their feat of the previous year at Long Beach. Clearly Tennessee thundered into Cleveland with a distinct edge in qualifying places. Based on rankings from premeet times, the Vols would have accumulated 264 points. Florida (198), Cal (164), UCLA (159), and USC (93) followed on the list of premeet prognostications...
Although B.U.'s Pete Hoss is the premeet favorite to gallop away with individual honors, only M.I.T. and Northeastern will come close to challenging the Crimson harriers...
...Heartbreakers" are athletic contests in which you almost do what you set out to do, but not quite. And in cross-country, as in almost every other sport, a miss is as good as a mile. Yale met premeet expectations yesterday, barely defeating the varsity and Princeton...
Largely because of this, Cornell is generally acknowledged to be the premeet favorite, but those who have watched other allegedly "underdog" Crimson squads upset the odds time and again in recent years, cannot resist the feeling that the varsity may do it again today...
...varsity's only other hopes for points are John Hammond in the 100 butterfly and Frank Gorman in the dives. Hammond's second-place time in the Easterns (56.8) ranks him fifth in the premeet calculations, which figures Tim Jecko of Yale (54.9) and Dick Tanabe of Indiana (55.3) as the favorites. Hammond will probably have to better his top time to be sure of a place...