Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seals and teammate Mike Koerner, recovering from assorted injuries, both broke, the old record for the shorter freshman course. Seals' time of 14:51.5 knocked 13.5 seconds from the mark...
PRINCETON. N. J. Nov. 1--Yale senior Frank Shorter shocked the Harvard cross country team and its bearded stars with a record-smashing performance, but the undefeated Crimson harriers had enough depth for their sixth straight Big Three championship here today...
Steve Bittner and Bob Yahn form a solid backup duet behind Shorter. Bittner, a versatile runner who can compete ably at any distance from the dash to five miles, has a strong finish any time he is within range of an opponent. The dimunitive Yahn has had injury troubles off and on, but has recently become a consistent top-level performer...
Princeton's ace is junior Eamon Downey, who matches undefeated records with Shorter and Harvard's Royce Shaw. Tigers Rich Stafford, Tom Yunck, and Dennis O'Brien provide some backup, but time gaps of a minute or more between places in Princeton's top five have been common this year...
Sophomore Dave Pottetti, fresh from Tuesday's Greater Boston victory, and steadily improving Keith Colburn can be expected to join Shaw and Hardin in a battle against Shorter and Downey for individual laurels this afternoon. Behind them Tom Spengler, Tim McLoone, and John Enscoe are good bets to outrun rival backup...