CROSS COUNTRY

Dartmouth's cross country men furnished more than a handful of competition for the strong M. I. T. team Nov. 30, finishing only one point behind the runners from Boston, over the Hanover five and one-half mile course. Coakley, of Dartmouth broke the tape 30 minutes and 40 seconds after the start of the run, leading Captain McMahon of Tech by 50 yards. Sherburne of Dartmouth finished third. The string of M. I. T. men who intervened between Sherburne, and Porter, who was the sixth man in, nosed the Green team out in the point score, the result being 27 to 28 in favor of Tech.

Running against strong teams from Columbia and Pennsylvania Dartmouth finished a poor third in the triangular meet over the Van Courtland Park course in New York. Higgins of Columbia, with a time of 31 minutes, 59 3-5 seconds, led the field of twenty men by a wide margin, breaking the record for the course. Pennsylvania won the meet with 30 points, Columbia following with 33 and Dartmouth with 62.

A. J. Coakley '22, of Wakefield, Mass., was elected captain of the team before the meet in New York. He made his letter in the half mile run in the spring of 1919 and has been a consistent performer since that time. He is a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.

The team closed its season at the Intercollegiate Cross Country Race at New Haven, November 20, finishing 15th in a field of 16 starters.