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Dyke Benjamin's near-record 4:12.1 performance in the mile led the varsity track team to an 81 2/3-58 1/3 triumph over an undermanned Dartmouth squad yesterday at the Stadium. The Crimson took ten first places on its way to victory, and its final margin might have been considerably greater if coach Bill McCurdy had decided to run up the score...
...suspicion is growing that this Crimson team is (or has become) quite a formidable outfit--much more so than its 3-4 record in Eastern League play would seem to indicate. Wins over Dartmouth, and over Yale on Saturday, would do much to confirm this suspicion...
Freshman Mark Mullin defeated the best milers the Crimson and Yale varsities had to offer, and John deKiewiet broke the University high jump record, as the last six places on the Harvard-Yale squad that will travel to England this June were decided yesterday...
DeKiewiet cleared 6 ft., 3 3/4 in. in qualifying for the trip along with freshman Marty Beckwith. In near-perfect form, deKiewiet made every height up to the record on his first attempt...
Yale, with its top five men back from last year and with a slightly more impressive record this spring, should rate as a shaky favorite today. But Crimson coach Jack Barnaby says, "Everyone knows Yale is very good, but we're good too, and we will be ready and up for this match." Neither Barnaby nor Yale coach John Skillman was willing last night to predict the outcome. Skillman said, "It should be a very good, hard-fought match," and that is precisely what it is going...