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Problems the Crimson had in abundance. Co-captain John Quirk, a winner the last two meets, was tripped in the mile and failed to qualify for the final. "I was very disappointed," McCurdy said. "I thought John was ready for a major effort, but he ran into some traffic problems, and fell...
...seemed personally to belong to Harvard's Ric Rojas of late, and the junior is favored again this weekend. There are, however, a surfeit of sub-nine-minute two milers to contend with, so the race could be a wide-open affair, as could the mile with John Quirk...
Nick Leone started the Crimson rolling with a 1:12.3 600, with freshman Joes Peters taking second. In the mile, Harvard swept for the second week in a row as John Quirk and Ric Rojas took an easy 1-2 with Quirk running a good time of 4:08.8 and Rojas two-tenths of a second back...
...Clayton failed to approach his world-best time of 2:08.0 in a slow 1000, but he won easily in 2:12.8. Another promising freshman, Wayne Curtis was second in 2:13.4. In the two-mile the quartet of Rojas, Bill Durette, Jimmy Keefe and Quirk swept the first four places for Harvard. The performance marked an unprecedented second consecutive year the Crimson has taken the two-mile in such a fashion...
...mile always seems to shape up as a wide open affair at Big Three meets and this year is no exception. Both Yale and Princeton have sub-4:10 milers to challenge the favorite, Harvard's John Quirk. The 600, however, should be a Crimson strongpoint with Nick Leone coming off a very fast 1:09.9 GBC win, and only a two man entry rule preventing a possible Harvard sweep...