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Cross Country Team Upsets Indians

Fregory, Cairas, and White Tie for 2nd, Lead 20-37 Victory

Five Crimson harriers finished in succession behind Dartmouth's Stanford Henley to give Jaakko Mikkola's cross country team an upset victory over the favored Green, 20 to 37, yesterday at Franklin Park in a dual meet. It was the Crimson's second victory in three attempts.

Smiley's winning time for the four-mile game was 21:17.4 Dave Gregory, Dave Airna and Dick Waitc finished in a triple for second place with the time of . Capitan John Pankey and Paul Judy came in 13 and 15 seconds later, respectively, followed by Tom Kelley and Jim Daniell of Dartmouth. Al Master, publishing ninth, did not rack up points, it displaced the Green's other two runners.

Everyone ran better than ever before, as the times prove," Mikkola stated. Although Smiley was well in front of the last Harvard's barriers showed better them running than in their first five men this 15 seconds of each other. There are very few time gaps after that between Smiley and the Crimson's first three finishers.

Clark Coggeshall finished twelfth in a race, with Own Edmonds, Ted Scudder, Steve Sharp, Goodie Cooke and Jim Little the other Crimson runners.

Next Friday Mikkola will take his writers to Princeton for their fourth meet, this time against Princeton and White.

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