Word: ritson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Third and fourth places went to Cornell's John Ritson (25:49) and Craig Holm (25:51), while Crimson captain Bill Okerman came back to capture fifth place for Harvard...
Cornell's honor winners include Phil Ritson, second in the Heps. Don Alexander, a member of last year's All-Ivy team, and sophomore Phil Collins...
...mile mark, only captain Mike Koerner was among the leaders. Cornell's Phil Ritson and Don Alexander were setting the pace, trying gamely to offset the awesome Penn depth. But by then, the race was already reduced to a team battle for second place. Five Quaker runners--freshman Dave Merrick, sophomore Denis Fikes, junior Bob Childs and seniors Julio Piazza and Karl Thornton--were clustered behind the Cornell men and Koerner, and following them was a group that included a comfortable number of Penn shirts...
...halfway mark along the five-mile course, Merrick and Thornton passed Ritson, Childs overtook Alexander, and Koerner dropped to seventh...
After four miles, little had changed. Koerner, the only Harvard man in the top 20, had fallen back to ninth, and Merrick had opened a lead of 100 yards over Thornton and Ritson. At the last, Ritson outkicked Thornton for second, but Merrick held on to win the race in 24:31.8, breaking Doug Hardin's meet record by more than three seconds. Thornton, Childs, Piazza and Fikes swept third through sixth places, and Koerner placed tenth, assuring himself of a berth on the All-Ivy squad. But the next Harvard men were far back--Quirk (23rd), Fred Linsk (35th...