But Mullin, Meehen, and Ed Hamlin (third in the mile earlier) had one final comedy, one final agony to endure. One hundred forty-nine points is a lot be keep track of, and neither Crimson coach Bill McCurdy nor anyone else was quite sure new matters stood before the two-mile.
Thus, with the temperature and the humidity both in the 90's, McCurdy put Mullin. Moohan, and Hamlin-the Big Three-in the two-mile with Mack, hoping for a second and a third, or at least third. Mack won in 9:24.6, a time he probably hadn't run since high school; but what happened to the Big Three was even worse.
Moohan, after covering nearly a mile almost at a walk, stopped; Mullin, dead-tired, was eventualy lapped by Mack; Ramin, limping badly from a pulled leg muscle, grimly hung on for third.
The Irony of this grotesque comedy was that the meet had been won before the two-mile began. Mullin, Moohan, and Humlin and carried the crimson banner through a successful cross country campaign and two fine track seasons. Saturday, they had already done enough, but they did not know it.
McCurdy, explaining this stratogy after the meet, matched Casey Stengel in the Perfessor's peroids of greatest lucidity: "Well, I was figuring on 721/2 points, and I know we were ahead of that because of what those fellers done for me in the 880, but I know we needed second and third even though I thought he had the meet clinched, and I didn't know which of those fellers could stand up, so I used all of them."
Other Crimson heroes were Rick DeLone and Sarge Nichols, one-two in the shot put and vice-versa in the discus; Ted Bailey, first in the hammer at 191 ft., Aggrey Aworl took five firs places in leading the freshman to an 812/2-671/2 triumph over Yale. Aworl Won the 100, the 220, the high and low hurdles, and the bread Jump. In the freshman javelin, Elli J. M. Hinkle broke the Yale record with a winning ross of 229 ft., 1 in. Yardling Peeter Lamp, taking second place, shattered the Harvard University mark with a throw of 212 ft., 6 in.