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Instead of a win-loss box score, however, the 1977 Crimson cross-country story should read like an injury chart, tallying Stein Rafto's never-ceasing knee troubles, and pointing out that Thad McNulty lost his hamstring, Noel Scid-more came down with pneumonia and Mark Meyer sprained his ankle...
...With competition like we face every year, we can't get away with even a few things going wrong," team captain Rafto admits. "Unfortunately things were often a lot worse...
Coach Bill McCurdy, disconsolate after still one more player injury in the Greater Boston Championships, put the team's predicament more colorfully. "It's another example of the workings of Rafto's law, which is about the same as Murphy's Law except it says if anything can go wrong, it will go worse...
...breaks lead to frustration, which can easily turn into pessimism and gloom. Rafto, Mark Meyer and others insist that this was not the case, however. "We just never gave up-we kept trying to put it together. At the Princeton meet (the last dual meet of the season) we put in nine varisty runners and we all ran our hardest...
Next season, nearly every important runner on the team except Rafto will return, with the addition of Moulton, Fitzsimmons, and freshman John Murphy, yet another injured party, who recovered in time to run to a smoking 4:07.9 finish in Thursday night's intrasquad heats...