Word: premeet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...