Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet was decided when Eric Roth and Dave Tuesdale of Harvard nosed out a Princeton runner for seventh and eighth, and Dick Hovey picked up the winning displacement points by taking tenth...
...next eight finishers, six were Harvardmen. Senior Jim Smith, the only Crimson runner to race the course before yesterday, came in fifth, just two seconds out of third place. Bob Stempson took sixth, 11 seconds ahead of highly-touted Steve Bittner of Yale, who had the second-fastest time over the 4.45-mile course until yesterday...
Bittner just set the Eli record on the Yale course by edging out Shorter, who tied the old mark. That was the only time this season that Bittner beat Shorter-a strong runner who was Hardin's main target at the start of the season...
Charting the metamorphisis is astonishing. Last year, for example, Hardin lost to a Cornell runner named Chester Judah by 54 seconds. This year Hardin beat him by three and a half minutes. Last year, Hardin came in 35th in the freshman IC4A championships. This year, he whipped Gordon McKusick, who won the freshman title, and will probably be one of the favorites himself at the end of the season...
...distance runner has to love the wind running through his hair. He has to have a distance runner's mentality," Hardin says getting up from the couch. Whatever it is, and it seems to be an odd mixture of the serious and the esthetic, Doug...