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Dyke Benjamin is ready for an attack on Pete Reider's University two-mile record of 9:21.2. Last month Benjamin turned in a 9:25.4 performance at the Connecticut Relays, and since then he has had his first real workouts since early December. He will be facing Army's Heptagonal champion Dick Greene in what promises to be the most exciting race of the meet...
...undefeated Crimson captain encountered his first serious competition of the season in Penn's sophomore star Dick Tracy and Cuban-born Jose Iglesias of the Lions. Two years ago, Iglesias ran Harvard ace Pete Reider into the ground on this same Van Cortlandt course, and Benjamin's 26:01 yesterday was 50 seconds slower than the 1956 winning time. But Iglesias, hampered by injuries and "upper-classitis," could do no better than third yesterday...
...Crimson did not race against the Big Red in a dual meet last year, it finished third behind them in the Heptagonals, while Navy ended in second. Cornell's fine team is back almost intact this year, while the varsity has lost four of its best men, including Pete Reider and French Anderson...
...terms of depth," McCurdy commented, "this will be the weakest team we've had in some time. Last year, for instance, when we were unbeaten in dual and triangular meets, we had ample depth behind front-running men like Reider, Anderson, Hildreth and Norris. But this year we have just five proven runners, and with two of them presently bothered by injuries, we may have a tough time duplicating that record...
...Reider, a History and Science concentrator, was captain of the Track Team and vice-President of the Undergraduate Athletic Council. Wortis, a Phi Beta Kappa student in Physics, held an Honorary John Harvard Scholarship and was President of the Mountaineering Club...