The freshman track team hasn't lost a meet since Al Wilson took over as its coach, and the indications are now strong that it will go through its second straight undefeated season.

So far this season, the Yardlings have sailed through Boston U., 88-13, and Tufts, 61-44, and have shown well in their two practice meets.

With members of this year's unbeaten Yardling cross country team forming the nucleus of the distance events, and a "terrific" group of weight men, Coach Wilson gives his team a good chance of equalling the '56 record of ten wins and no defeats.

"Captain Dick Wharton and Joel Cohen are the most outstanding on a squad which beasts no really great athletes," said Wilson. "The team is good because it functions as a team, not a group of individual stars."

Wharton is the top man in a very deep 600 event. In fact, the event is so deep that Wilson is still in the process of finding exactly which men he will enter in it. So far, Bob Well and Mike Robertson rank right behind Wharton.

Dick Norris and Jim Cairns, both cross country men, show the most potential in the 1000, while Phil Williams, whom Wilson says shows great promise, leads cross country captain Bill Morris and Alden Carpenter in the mile. Dave McLean and Bob Holmes, both of the cross country team, are the two-milers.

In the dashes and the hurdles it is Joel Cohen, who is also the team's best broad jumper. Behind him in the 40-yard hurdles is Jim Polese, while Bob Hahn is rated second in the 40-yard dash.

Crack Relay

Wilson is especially proud of his crack mile relay team, which placed second in the K. of C. Meet recently. He feels that they would have placed first, except for the fact that anchor man Wharton was unable to regain his stride after being knocked off balance attempting to pass Brown's anchorman, John Connor. They did, however, beat a highly regarded Yale freshman relay team.

The two-mile relay team, of Williams, McLean, Norris, and Cairns, while not showing so well as the mile relay team, is expected to improve as the season progresses.

Leading the field events are the 35-pound weightmen, led by Leo Daly, with Tony Gianelly running, or throwing, a close second. Daly, whom Wilson calls "powerful, but crude," has "got it," he says, and so has Gianelly. Third is Pete Harpel, who although compiling the best competitive mark of the three, does not show quite the potential of the other two.

Shot and Weight

Gianelly leads the shot men and has been throwing 45 feet consistently, good throws for so early in the season, according to Wilson. Paul Abrahamian is number two in the shot. Besides Cohen, in the broad jump, is number two man Al Goldstein, and right behind him is Andy Bingham. In the high jump, it is Hank Moore, with Cohen and Zab Warren vying for the number two spot.

The team's weakest event is the pole vault, which has only two candidates, one of whom has been inactive since the beginning of the season because of a pulled tendon. Dave Richard, the other vaulter, has been filling in well for the injured Lauren Studebaker:

"A coach's main problem," says Wilson, "is to keep the men interested enough in their events to put in the work which is necessary to perform well." From the record of his team, he has gone a long way towards solving this problem.