The Big Red Varsity track and field team will be a slight favorite to win its first team title in the Fifth Annual Quadrangular Meet among Harvard. Dartmouth, and Cornell at the Boston Garden, Saturday night, February 24.

Coach Jack Moakley is bringing a well-balanced team to Cambridge, a team which preliminary dope sheets rate a 44 1-3 point victor over a 42 1-2 point Dartmouth effort, with the Crimson and the Blue fighting for third place.

Murdock Back

The Ithacans are going to find a great addition to their strength in the return of Lester Murdock, who has been out of competition for a year. Murdock's winning records of 22 feet, 11 5-8 inches in the broad jump and 6 feet, 2 1-2 inches in the high jump in the '38 meet will inch between six and ten points for the Big Red. With Harvard jumpers finding difficulty in clearing six feet in the high and 20 in the broad jump, Murdock's only competition will be from Donald Blount of Dartmouth, who won the broad jump last year with a distance of 23 feet, 6 1-4 inches, and tied for the high jump with a 6 foot, 1-2 inch mark.

Blount and Murdock threaten Quad meet records with their previous jumps of 6 feet, and 6 feet, 3 inches respectively in the high jump, and 24 feet in the broad jump.

Cornell has a fine hurdler in don Weadon, who was second to Jay Shields of Yale last year; the average Crimson time of six seconds flat will show up badly against the 5:5 seconds of the visitors.

Cornell's Captain Walter Zittel will struggle with Dartmouth's sensational Lawrence Ritter in the 300, and Walter Schmidt will vie with Dartmouth's Bob Williams in the 1000 yard run. Weak in the distances, Harvard is expected to be a spectator in these events, though Kenneth Zeigler, Cornell Sophomore, may push Jim Lightbody to a new record.

Cornell's outstanding mile relay team will probably triumph over the slow Crimson quartet that beat Yale last Saturday, and their two mile relay will have only Dartmouth to battle for first place.

Fred West, Ithaca's outstanding shot-putter, should better the meet record of 49 feet, 5 3-8 inches, though he may be threatened by the Crimson's George Downing.