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...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...
Cornell has a 7-0 record. The Big Red has not met Penn, however. Last Saturday, the Cornell squad downed Army 11-42, Phil Ritson, Don Alexander, Phil Collins and Tim Cahill all broke the tape together for first place. They were timed at 25:22.5 on Cornell's 5.0 mile Moakley course...
...Ritson was far out in front for the entire race. After less than one mile, he was approximately 50 feet ahead of teammate Capt. Don Alexander. Alexander and Collins were far ahead of the first Harvard runner, Fred Linsk, for the entire race...
Cornell's Phil Ritson broke the Moakley course record of 25:13.8 set just two weeks ago by teammate Phil Collins, Ritson, who ran first in the meet, was clocked...
...same meet, Ritson ran second in 25:26 and also topped the previous record of 25:29.8 set by Harvard's Tom Spengler...