Although they failed to register an unconditional triumph, Harvard's unbeaten harriers met the Ivy League's best in Van Courtlandt Park on Saturday and emerged in a 37-37 deadlock with Cornell.

By tying for first place in the first annual Heptagonal meet, the Crimson gained half of a leg on the Junius T. Auerbach Memorial Trophy. Yale with 76 points, Princeton with 87, Dartmouth with 94, and Penn with 134 trailed in that order, as Columbia failed to finish a team.

Mainstays of the Crimson's victory push were Langy Burwell, Jim Lightbody, and Gene Clark, who finished closely bunched up in third, fourth and fifth places. Penn Tuttle's eighth place and Dick Wing's seventeenth clinched the case for the Mikkolamen, as Dave Simboll and Joe McLoughlin finished out of the money--twenty-second and twenty-seventh respectively.

Chief Crimson surprises were the amazing performance of Lightbody, a virtual novice at cross country, and Simboli's failure to finish up with the leaders after heading the pack for most of the first half-of the five-mile run, sometimes by over 50 yards.

Wingerter Surprises

But the biggest upset was Emery Wingerter's performance. The Cornell Senior cannily rated himself well off the pace in the early stages of the run, worked himself up into first shortly after the half-way mark, and blasted across the finish line three seconds ahead of Yale's Bill Watson.