Harvard did not win either the men's or women's end of the Brown-Dartmouth home tri-meet Saturday at McCurdy Track, but almost no one seemed to care.

An early accident cast a pall over the afternoon's proceedings and made Dartmouth's win in the men's meet and Brown's in the women's--and Harvard's second-place finish to both--relatively inconsequential.

During the hammer throw, one of the visitors made a bad throw that would have been a foul, according to Harvard co-captain Joe Ciollo.

But the hammer hit a bystander, who fell to the ground and was taken to a hospital by ambulance.

"The chain part of the hammer hit his face, but the hammer hit him on the side, I think above the hips," senior T.K. Yang said. "It was going in slow motion. I heard people yell 'Watch out!' and saw the guy tumble down."

"I ducked but saw him falling," junior Kristy Johnson said. "I thought he might even be dead. I saw him go down, just drop. Blood was covering his face, so I stood there for two seconds and ran to get help.

She said that she thinks the man was an alumnus because he was there with another elderly-looking man and because so many former Harvard runners attend track meets.

Although Yang said the man was an official, Johnson and others disagreed.

The accident happened fairly early in the meet.

"Things like that characterized the day," co-captain Heather Hanson said. "We weren't focused on the whole team effort because of the accident, and some people were kind of shook up. The focus of the day became for us to try to get as good an effort as we could, get experience in the cold, and not worry about scores at all."

Dartmouth Men 89.5-Harvard 63-Brown52.5

The Big Green men won the javelin, 100-meter high hurdles, long jump, 1500-meter, hammer throw, and triple jump. They swept the 5000-meter and added seven other second-place finishes.

Ciollo led the Crimson with a Michael Johnson-like 200-and 400-meter double victory.

"I was happy with both of my races," he said. I think that a lot of the sprinting events, including my own, were affected by the strong headwind in the home stretch that was pretty much present all day. It was probably about 10 miles and hour. Both of my races weren't anything too exciting. I was able to win them both comfortably."

Harvard got three other first-place performances, including freshman Aaron Snead, who cleared 4.35 meters in the pole vault, senior Scott Muoio, who won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:08.4, and sophomore John Kraay, who won the shotput with a throw of 15.70 meters. Sophomore Tarek Hamid won the discus with a throw of 48.00 meters, 16 centimeters ahead of second place.

"Muoio actually had an exceptional race in the steeplechase, where he was only 10 seconds off his personal best despite having bad weather and no one to run with for most of the race," Ciollo said "He's one of the best steeplechase runners in the East right now."

Harvard got second-place finishes from sophomore Matt Getman in the javelin, junior David Martin in the steeplechase, junior Dom Patillo in the 800-meter, and freshman Kevin Worrell in the triple jump.

Sophomore Arthur Fergusson placed second in the long jump but suffered a high hamstring pull and was unable to do the triple jump and 110-meter high hurdles. Sophomore Chris Clever, who has already qualified for the NCAA championships in the javelin, sat out with an arm injury. Freshman Kobie Fuller, a top sprinter, also was hurt.

On a positive note for Harvard, Yang, who placed sixth in the 100-meter, ran competitively for the first time in five years. He had been recovering form the effects of a thyroid problem and had been hampered this year by track-related injuries.

"It's good to be back," he said "I had been forced to take some time off, and I really wanted to do well, I guess my goal was to get back in competition and test the waters. I learned it's hard to come back after five years, but I'm really happy for the team because we really have great freshmen."

Dartmouth's dominance in the 5,000-meter, hammer and high jump--events in which Harvard did not score a point--made the difference in the meet.

"Normally, Muoio is an exceptional 5,000-meter runner also, but it was not worth it for him to race twice this early in the season," Ciollo said. "The steeplechase was first event and the 5,000-meters is normally one of the last, so it's usually possible to double. The same thing went for Dave Martin.

"The Brown-Dartmouth meet wasn't one where we felt we needed to scratch and claw our ways to a victory. We really want to keep everyone healthy and ready for the important meets like Yale and Heps," Ciollo added.

Brown Women 78-Harvard 58-Darthmouth 55

The Crimson women's team also finished second, falling as expected to defending Ivy champion Brown.

Some little things went wrong for Harvard, which was undermanned because of injury. Junior Kate Moynihan was not available to run the 1,500-meter, and sophomore Tara Keck did not run the 800-meter as she usually does.

Sophomore Brenda Taylor false-started on the hurdles which she "probably would have won," according to co-captain Heather Hanson.

Hanson herself was limited in running the 100-meter because of worries that she would worsen her hamstring injury. She is trying to go full-speed against Yale next weekend.

"We knew what Brown had, so that wasn't too surprising," Hanson said. "Their team is a little bigger than ours when it comes to depth. For instance, after I dropped out of the 100-meter, we had only one other person, and Brown had five girls. It's not that they have a lot more talented people than we do, just greater numbers."

Harvard beat out Dartmouth with a first-place finish in the mile relay.

"It's exciting any time you win on the relay at the end," co-captain Margaret Schotte said. "We're still getting our legs under us after Spring Break, and as Coach [Frank Haggerty '68] said, we need to wait a week or two before we see results from our hard training. It was basically a fine-tuning week for next weekend."

In addition to the mile relay win, Harvard got first places from dependable sophomore Dora Gyorffy in the high jump, Sophomore Marna Schutte in the 200-and 400-meter, sophomore Kate Ousley in the triple jump, and Taylor in the 400-meter hurdles.

Second-place individual finishers included freshman Loni Sherwin in the pole vault, sophomore Mary Unsworth in the 1,5000-meter, senior Lee Sheared in the 400-meter, freshman Carrie McGraw in the 400-meter hurdles and Schotte in the 3,000-meter.

Harvard hosts Yale next weekend with even more than the usual rivalry providing incentive.

Before the meet, Harvard will have memorial service for legendary coach Bill McCurdy, who led Harvard for 30 years.

"Like a true Harvard man, he hated Yale, so we're going to try to honor his memory by beating Yale," Ciollo said. "A lot of alums will be out there."

Also at stake is a spot on the Oxford-Cambridge roster. Every two years, Harvard and Yale form a team that competes in the summer against their British equivalents. The schools take turns hosting the events which is in England this year.

The top two finishers in each individual event qualify for the trip along with some coached' selections.

"In a way, our focus is beating Yale, but for a lot of people, there's that extra incentive," Ciollo said.