Word: walts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walt's strategy for this race was the same plan that had worked so well in the Heptagonals and the IC4A's--to go out fast and set the pace. But his starting position was such that he had to wade through four inches of snow over the first fifteen yards of the course, and by the time he emerged from the icy morass, the more advantaged runners were packed in front...
...Walt's fifth-place finish climaxed the greatest season any Harvard runner has had since 1928. Hewlett won all eight regular season meets and the Heptagonals and finished second behind Georgetown's Joe Lynch in the IC4A...
...Walt avenged that defeat yesterday when he passed Lynch in the final half-mile. The Georgetown senior finished in eighth place...
Bill Clark of Notre Dame finished 50 yards behind Banton in second place; Jim Murphy of the Air Force Academy was third and Dave Wighton of Colorado University finished fourth, 0:06 ahead of Hewlett. Walt's time was 20:24.3. Joe Lynch of Georgetown, who beat Hewlett in the IC4A's last week, was eighth...
...after the Brown meet, Harvard won all the rest, largely because of the improvement of Dave Allen, who consistently finished second behind Hewlett during the latter half of the season. Allen placed second behind Walt in the Heps also, as the junior pair and Bill Crain, who took ninth place, led the Crimson to a surprise runner-up finish behind Navy...