John McCulloh's fourth place in the high jump, with a 6 ft. 8 in. leap, puts the talented freshman in solid high jump company. McCulloh, who earlied jumped 6 ft. 10 in. said he was "only one inch short from being in the national championship." He hopes to get in that inch in the upcoming IC4A's at Pittsburgh.

Unfortunately, some of the Harvard competitors' best marks won't appear in any of the 40th annual meet's box scores. Bill Okerman's strong half-mile run is a case in point.

Okerman, a miler for most of the season, ran a personal best of 1:52.5 and finished second in his half mile heat, qualifying for the finals. Although, as Hunt said after the meet "he shot his wad in that first run," and came back with only a 1:56.9 in the second race, Okerman's performance was a fine tribute to the sophomore's dedication and to the coaching staff's personal program for the runner. "Because of all that mile practice I had the stamina to finish strong in the half," Okerman said elatedly after his final race. "With my speed I couldn't stay with the pack, but when I got to the last 220, I was strong enough so that it was only a little problem to stay up front."

Miler Jeff Campbell was another victim of a strong field. Competing against a corps of tough runners, including several men who broke the old meet mile record, Campbell was only about ten seconds off Jeff Kramer's winning clocking of 4:03.5. But the freshman standout, plagued by insufficient time to work out, did manage to log a 3:08 3/4-mile time while running the mile. "He was really strong in the cross-country season, and he is going to be a comer," Hunt said.

Perhaps one of the most unfortunate contests for a Harvard runner was Ric Rojas's performance in the three mile. Rojas, whose time in the Penn Relays was ten seconds faster than Princeton winner Ron Vander Kraats's 13:40.8 in Saturday's action, led for about two miles until he succumbed to a recent sickness. Hunt explained after Rojas's race that Ric picked up the bug on Thursday and "his lungs were just too congested to run well. He would have won it otherwise."

Even though the Crimson 'clads looked disappointing on paper they really weren't outclassed by Penn or Navy. The two top teams had the depth necessary to win, but few of the competitors could match the Crimson's field strength, and the Harvard runners fared well in a market glutted with recruited schoolboy 440 and 880 champions. "Overall I was really pleased," Hunt said after Leone crossed the finish line to end the mile relay and the meet. "The bovs did a hell of a job."