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...mile has seemed personally to belong to Harvard's Ric Rojas of late, and the junior is favored again this weekend. There are, however, a surfeit of sub-nine-minute two milers to contend with, so the race could be a wide-open affair, as could the mile with John Quirk...
What we have here is a conscious mixture of the less than definable music Traffic's made since 1967--elements of psychedelia, sixties rock, some rhythm and blues, some jazz--and the distinctive southern R 'n' B played in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Traffic's last rhythm section, bassist Ric Grech and Jim Gordon on drums, were rockers, pure and simple, particularly Gordon's white rock/gospel/white R 'n' B background. (He was with the originators of white gospel, Delaney and Bonnie, as well as with Cocker, Leon Russell, and Derek's Dominos). New members Roger Hawkins and David Hood, on drums...
Nick Leone started the Crimson rolling with a 1:12.3 600, with freshman Joes Peters taking second. In the mile, Harvard swept for the second week in a row as John Quirk and Ric Rojas took an easy 1-2 with Quirk running a good time of 4:08.8 and Rojas two-tenths of a second back...
...last week's GBC's the two mile shapes up as a wide-open battle this time between Ric Rojas of Harvard, Vanderkraats and Good of Princeton, and Mearns of Yale. Rojas, who ran away from the field last Saturday to win in 8:48.8 could do the same this weekend, while Jim Keefe could surprise everyone with a repeat performance of his second-place GBC finish...
...whichever he runs. Dewey Hickman is among four hurdlers favored in the 60-yd. highs while co-captain Bob Clayton is a cofavorite with B.C.'s Keith Francis in the 1000. Co-captain John Quirk and John McDonald of B.C. head the field in the mile. Harvard's Ric Rojas is among four sub-nine minute two milers centered in what could be the best race of the meet, with Harvard freshman Bill Durette a dark horse threat. Quirk has recorded the better time by two seconds, but McDonald won the last meeting between...