However, the first three teams in the second run-Penn, Navy and Princeton-all ran faster. The Princeton anchor runner tripped and stepped out of his lane before the finish line. but was not disqualified.

In the 440 relays. Penn broke another record. Penn's time of 40.7 seconds bested Yale's of 41.3 Harvard's Bud Wilson, Chris Alvord, John Schneider and Bailee Reed took fourth in the relay.

In the 440 hurdles, Crimson runners Ed Dugger and Walter Johnson took early leads, but Princeton's Andy Kappel and Ben Brown hit stride on the final 75 yards and took 1-2 respectively. Kappel ran 52.8. Brown 53.1.

Dugger, who hit the final hurdle, took third at 53.3 and Johnson was fifth at 54.0. Yale's Dick McDonald, 1970 winner, took fourth at 53.7.

In the triple jump. Harvard's Howie Corwin took second with a jump of 48' 1". Glen Fausset of Cornell-who was also first in the long jump-won the event with 49' 31/4".

Other Harvard scorers included Ed Baskauskas and Fred Lang, who tied for fifth in the high jump.

"This wasn't our day," head coach Bill McCurdy said after the meet. "Considering all the so-called bad breaks, we did pretty well."

Penn's coach Jim Tuppeny expressed surprise over Harvard's performance and added that "Princeton seared the heck out of us."

"With Enscoe falling, it put Harvard in a bad psychological spot. Then, with Joe Naughton not scoring in the shot put and Markowski (Penn's shot putter) getting third, it put us in a strong position," he said.