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...there are two major questions facing the Harvard harriers. One concerns the ability of sophomores Dave Pottetti and Tom Spengler to handle the crowded conditions and fast early pace of a large championship meet. Both reacted well in the Heps, finishing fifth and sixth, respectively. But there will be four times as many runners today, and more experienced runners have been known to get lost in the five-mile shuffle...
...nation of Stoics. From the outset, Americans have been so compulsive about winning that losing is almost unAmerican. In this sense, the U.S. is only the most extreme example of the Western trait that Oswald Spengler described as Faustian?the refusal to believe in a static order or a fixed fate. The very freedom of Western culture puts a heavy burden on losers. Western man's destiny is largely up to him?and so are his failures. The fabulous opportunities open to a new people on a new continent became the basis of a secular religion, a faith in competition...
Sophomore stars Dave Pottetti and Tom Spengler took the next two slots. Pottetti ran a steady race and was closing on Downey over the last two miles. Spengler was farther back for most of the race, but bounded up the final hill to overtake three opponents, finishing sixth...
After winning six previous meets, junior Royce Shaw found the pace too high to maintain and faded back to seventh place. Tom Spengler, a consistent front-runner all season, dropped to tenth behind three Princeton runners...
Shaw, Pottetti, and Colburn rate as dark horses today, along with Princeton's Eamon Downey and Penn's George Lokken. McLoone, Spengler, and sophomore Jon Enscoe should be close behind...