In a performance that would make a believer out of even Howard Cornell, the Harvard track team trounced Northeastern last night, "4.44, and left itself as the team to beat in the Boston area--and possibly in the Ivies.

En route to the victory, the Crimson squad set one facility record, tied another and came up with a number of surprising performances.

"It was a stimulating performance," said head coach Bill McCurdy after the meet. "If we can escape the English flu, we should stay very strong. There are a few weak spots, places where we lack some depth, but overall, it's an extremely promising team."

Facility Record

Jim Kleiger, who broke the University pole vault record last weekend in the U.S. Track and Field Federation meet at Dartmouth, set a facility record last night in the pole vault, Kleiger burled himself 16 feet, while teammates Blaine Heckel and Don Berg completed the sweep in the event for Harvard.

Heckel's height was 14 ft. 6 in., Berg's was 14 ft.

The Harvard field events team continued their winning ways, as Jay Hughes took first in the pole vault in 58 ft. 6 in., and Vin Vanderpool Wallace won the long jump with 22 ft. 11 in Freshman Mel Embree won the high jump for the second time in a row in 6 ft. 6 in.

Dewey Hickman equaled the 7.3 seconds facility record in the 60 vard hurdles for the second meet in a row. Paul Sabia and Charlie Valentine took second and third places for the Huskies.

Quirk's Best

Co-Captain John Quirk turned in the best performance of his career, winning the mile in 4:07. His previous best came in the Greater Boston's last year when he ran a 4.08.2. Northeastern's Dave Goldsmith and John Hickey stayed ahead of Quirk for the first three quarters of the race, but Quirk stuck close behind and then pulled for ahead in the last quarter mile.

Goldsmith was clocked at 4.12.6. Hickey at 4:16.2.

In the 600, Co-Captain Bob Clayton won a surprising victory over second-place finisher Nick Leone. Freshman Joel Peters took third place, completing an unexpected sweep of the event for the Crimson.

Leone led until the end of the race, while Clavtoe and Northeastern's Horrigan were battling for second, Clayton got by Horrigan and then passed Leone near the line Peters was also able to pass Horrigan near the end of the race. "If was Nick's race," said Clavton afterward. "He set it up for us I was able to sneak by right at the end."

In the two made, Harvard's Ric Rojas was back in form overwhelming Huskie Ken Elanders Harvard's Jim Keele took third.

Freshman Hill Durrette led the race through the first mile while Rojas held baek. Flanders passed Keete. Then Durrette with 10 laps to go Keele managed to pass both Durrette and Flanders, but with seven to go. Rojas pulled ahead of the pack to stay.

Rojas was clocked at 8:59.5, Flanders at 9:09, and Keefe at 9:10.8.