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...much for the exceptions. The returning roster may be reasonably expected to carry the day. First there are the top guns. Senior captain Stein Rafto, sophomore Reid Eichner, and sophomore Ed Sheehan, will lead the pack this year...
...Rafto is an experienced runner whose time has come. Plagued by serious knee problems last year, Rafto has had a few rough spots to polish in summer camp, but is nor running well. Eichner will return from a strong freshman season. A hot ticket when he's got his stuff together, he should improve as the season progresses...
...work takes its toll on the runners' bodies, as evidenced by assorted sore muscles, Meyer's sore foot, and Rafto's ailments, which have led him to monopolize the heating pads. "Rafto and training camp are a very unsuited couple," McCurdy says. "He's just a physical mess...
...they will be, at the very least, good. Rafto and Eichner can run with almost anyone, while Meyer and Thad McNulty have a lot of solid races under thier belts. And the biggest surprise of all could be Ed Sheehan, who has shown flashes of brilliance in training but missed much of last season with an injury. Dave Sullivan and Bill Berkley may also break into top form this year...
After his early-morning Lazarus imitation, Rafto returned, still somewhat pained, from the squad's morning run, and 11-mile, 68-minute affair. Seconds later, the rest of the runners filed into the cabin behind him. Within a minute, the pants and grimaces had turned to smiles. In one corner, Eichner was bellyaching about McCurdy's hot air, in another, McNulty was comically relating the plot of a TV movie he had watched the night before. As the aches subsided, one-liners began to fill the room again, and you knew that Harvard cross-country was in good shape...