Whether or not track coach Jaakko Mikkola is familiar with the week-long woes that accompany registration is one of the finer questions confronting local sports enthusiasts. He has gone on record with the cheery statement that Freshmen should comprise the strength of this year's cross country squad.
If they do recover sufficient composure to compete for a berth among the marathon men, Crimson newcomers will join an aggregation that complied one of the best records in college history. Among last spring's Varsity victims were Tufts, Connecticut, Rhode Island State, Holy Cross, Yale, Dartmouth and Princeton.
Unlike other Crimson coaches, whose main problem is to weed the most promising candidates from a wealth of material, Mikkola is this term virtually stating from scratch. Cross country has been dormant here since 1942 when the Crimson harriers climaxed a record season by downing Yale and Princeton in a triangular meet before folding up shop for the duration.
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