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...Cadet captain Bill Straub, needing a victory to keep Army's hopes alive, who turned the trick in Saturday's next-to-last event, the two-mile run, Straub trailed Harvard's Walt Hewlett for most of the race but chugged past the Crimson sophomore in the last quarter mile to win by a scant ten yards. His time was a scintillating 9:00.8, 0:01 faster than Hewlett, and 0:07.7 better than the old mark...
...pole vault, but scored devastating one-two-three sweeps in both. The other Cadet wins came in the 120-yard high hurdles, with Allen again nipping sophomore Lynch, the 440-yard run, where Lance Farrell led teammate Hal Jenkins across the finish line, and in the mile as Straub beat Meehan by two steps...
Even so, Coach McCurdy's boys aren't likely to equal the 75-34 pasting they inflicted on the Army squad indoors in December. That time the Cadets were without the services of captain Bill , a double outdoor Heptagonal champion in 1963. Straub's presence today should mean Army victories in the mile and two-mile runs...
...Crimson middle and long distance men, captain Ed. Meehan, Keith Chiappa, and John Ogden may not be able to beat Straub, but should score no worse than a second place in the 880, mile, and two-mile against a thin supporting cast of Cadets...
Then Awori's failure to place in the hurdles final forced the Crimson to settle for a third position and three points from Tony Lynch. Another scant point came in the mile, as Bill Crain notched fifth place, far behind the winner, Bill Straub of Army...