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Actually, the Green's varsity is not totally inept. It has an outstanding runner in Captain Doug Brew, the heptagonal half-mile champion. Brew set a Dartmouth course record in beating varsity ace Pete Reider last year, but he has been hampered by an ankle injury this year. His second place finish against Brown last week, however, indicates that he will probably be at top strength for his annual duel with the Crimson's Reider...
...Reider is ready, especially since he has finally shaken the effects of a cold which has bothered him much of the season...
Columbia's Cuban-born Jose Iglesias won the race, finishing well ahead of Reider in a record time of 25 minutes, 10.2 seconds. Schlaeppi trailed his teammate by over 150 yards. However, with these two Crimson runners disqualified, the official second finisher was Columbia's Stan Abramowitz who came in 100 yards behind Schlaeppi...
...only real interest in the day's event was the battle for the top four places. Reider, weakened by a bad cold, matched strides with the smooth-running Iglesias for the first mile and a quarter, but on the second hill, the Cuban sophomore put on a spurt to pull into a 250 yard lead at the two-mile mark...
...last big obstacle, "Heartbreak Hill", Iglesias had increased his to almost a quarter of a mile, with Reider and Schlaeppi still ahead of Abramawitz. Reider steadily pushed ahead of Schlaeppi to finish second, unofficially by a comfortable margin...