Article

TRACK

August, 1915
Article
TRACK
August, 1915

Dartmouth met with average success in track athletics. Though defeated by Pennsylvania in the dual meet 64½-52½ through the speed of Meredith, Ferguson and Peeso—it was Peeso's success in the hurdles over Braun and Trenholm which gave Dartmouth's hopes their death blow—the Green team succeeded in winning the New England Intercollegiate meet. The Green was forced, however, to rest content with but 36 1-3 points to 31 for the University of Maine. Whitney established a new shot-put record at this meet with a heave of 47 ft. 10½ inches. Worthington also set a new mark in the broad jump, covering 23 ft., 10¼ inches. The same two men were Dartmouth's mainstay in the big intercollegiates the following week, when Dartmouth tied for sixth place with 14 points, Cornell winning with 45½.

The best that the cross-country team could do in the Intercollegiate meet was to finish eighth, with Cornell again the winner. The freshman cross-country team, however, sprung a surprise and won the annual Andover invitation meet with a score of four points better than that of the Harvard freshmen, and 66 points better than the Pennsylvania freshmen. The Dartmouth varsity had already been defeated by the Pennsylvania cross-country runners, and had finished third to Maine and M. I. T. in the New England Intercollegiate meet.