Word: harriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Tom Larris and Nick Jennison, Dartmouth's two infallibles, have outrun Bill Schwabe, star of the Brown squad, who proved faster than any Crimson harrier in the Friday meet. Theoretically, this gives Dartmouth the first and second spots in today's race, with runner Dan Tompkins counted on for either fourth or fifth...
...race, Dyke Benjamin became the first Crimson runner ever to win the Heptagonals, the first to win every contest of the regular cross-country season, and the first harrier captain to lead his team in every regular-season race...
Depth and the letdown following the Yale meet proved the ruin of the Crimson. Jed Fitzgerald, the next harrier after Benjamin, finished twentieth, and other disappointments followed. Coach Bill McCurdy noted Thursday that "if one of our top five goes, the whole meet goes." Yesterday, the whole team caved in, although their 135-138 loss to fourth-place Brown was not as bad as it could have been...
...varsity's two previous encounters face its toughest test so far this season today when it seeks to extend its winning streak to three straight over a strong Brown harrier team in a dual meet at Franklin Park...
Running entirely by themselves for the last two miles of the race, the two harrier speedsters stayed close together until the final 200 yards when Benjamin put on a finishing kick to cross the tape eight seconds before Fitzgerald. Benjamin's time established a record for the new course and was reckoned comparable to his winning time of last week which was just short of the Cornell record...