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They may have been watching a future Olympic champion, for the bigger runner was Tom Courtney, one of the U.S.A.'s entrants in the 800 meter run. The man with him was one of Harvard's greatest track and field men ever, the 1955 captain, Bob Rittenburg...
...Rittenburg's function was to aid Courtney's training. The former Crimson ace would have been preparing himself, too, except that he came in fifth in the final of the Olympic 400-meter hurdle trial last summer, after winning the event at the Armed Services championships...
...through Rittenburg and Coach Bill McCurdy that Courtney came here to train. Rittenburg was a teammate of Courtney's at Fort Dix and later, on the First Army team...
...Rittenburg, however, this week sent him back to the less exhilarating confines of regular duty at the Boston Army Base. He still gets out to Soldiers Field to run, but not so frequently...
...only Harvardmen competing for Olympic positions were Bob Rittenburg, captain of the 1955 Crimson track squad, and Pete Harpel, the track team's leading hammer-thrower this year. Rittenburg won his heat in the 440 meter hurdles but could not quite make it in the finals as three of his opponents broke the existing world record. Harpel finished well out of the running in the hammer...