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There were a lot of stars, but the brightest was newly elected cross country captain John Quirk. Quirk won, as expected, in the mile, but only after being challenged by Army's Deacon Fee in the last lap. Quirk ran a 4:12.2, finishing two yards ahead of Fee, who was clocked at 4:12.8. Tom New took third for the Crimson...
Less than 45 minutes later, Quirk was called upon to run in the 1000. Coming off the final turn, Army's Barry Saddler had the lead, followed by the Harvard's Bob Clayton and Quirk. Clayton swung wide off the turn to pass Saddler, and Saddler swung with him. This enabled Quirk to pull up on the inside, and all three approached the finish line together...
...Quirk dove for the tape and took first place with Clayton taking second on a lean. Both were timed...
...John Quirk, Jim Keefe and tom New should give Harvard strength over Army in the mile-run and sophomore Rick Rojas, senior Mike Koerner and sophomore Fred Linsk have had fast, early season times in the two-mile...
...closest race of the night was the two-mile run, in which the Crimson took first and second places with John Quirk and Fred Linsk having times of 9:01 and 9:04, both very fast for early season. Linsk's time was 20 seconds better than his previous best time for the two-mile...