Word: reider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race itself shaped up nearly as had been predicted, with Crimson ace Pete Reider duelling Princeton's spectacular sophomore Rod Zwirner for the lead. Yale contented itself with gaining the all-important third through eighth positions, ignoring the two front-runners...
Coach McCurdy will stick with the usual lineup of Pete Reider, Dave Norris, captain Dave McLean, Jim Schlaeppi, Dick Wharton, Ralph Perry, John Read, Thompson, Bob Holmes, Bill Morris, Larry Lavers, and Dyke Benjamin...
Wary of Brew's spectacular finishing kick, and, therefore, bent on opening up as big a lead as possible before the stretch, Reider changed his usual tactics by jumping into quick lead at the outset of the race, setting a brisk pace. Brew moved up into second place five yards behind Reider at the first big hill, as both began to pull away from the rest of the field...
...lake turn, however, Reider opened up a lead of nearly 30 yeards on his archrival, a lead which he maintained until the second lake turn, when his killing pace began to tell on the tiring Brew. By the three-mile mark, Reider had increased his lead to over 100 yards. At this point, Brew led third man Dave Norris by nearly 20 yards, as Crimson runners Norris, Jim Schlaeppi, Dave McLean, and Dick Wharton fought for third position...
...Reider whipped Brew by over 250 yards, crossing the finish line in 19:39.0, breaking the previous record of 19:45.6 set by B.U.'s George Terry...