CROSS COUNTRY

Six of the first seven men to finish the four and a half mile Middlebury cross-country course, October 21 were members of Harry Hillman's cross country squad, giving Dartmouth the race by a score of 17 to 42. The Dartmouth team completely outclassed the Middlebury runners, who held the intercollegiate championship of 'Vermont. Coakley, of Dartmouth, was the first man across the finish line, his time for the distance being twenty-six minutes and five seconds. He was closely followed by Sherburne and Young. Cole, the Middlebury star, landed fourth place by outsprinting Winsor and Captain Shem, of Dartmouth. Forbush, of Dartmouth, finished seventh with Cook, Shelby, and Palmer, of Middlebury in his wake.

The hill and dale teams of Cornell, Syracuse, M. I. T., and Yale, led the Dartmouth cross country runners over the Syracuse course, October 29, Dartmouth finishing fifth, with Columbia and Colgate trailing in the last two positions. Four of the Cornell runners trotting abreast over the last of the course, broke the tape for a decisive victory with a time of 22 minutes and 49 seconds for the four and a half mile course. Coakley, the first of the Dartmouth runners to cross the line, finished tenth in 23 minutes and 25 seconds. Young, of Dartmouth, took twelfth place, with Sherburne and Winsor scoring nineteenth and thirtieth, and Forbush and Miner in the forty-first and forty-eighth positions. The, team scores were: Cornell 25, Syracuse 75, M. I. T. 90, Yale 98, Dartmouth 112, Colgate 150 and Columbia 168.

While the .varsity team was trailing at Syracuse the Dartmouth freshman team outpointed the Cornell yearlings, at Ithaca, by a score of 27 to 29, taking second, third, fifth, sixth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth places. North, of Cornell, broke the tape at the end of the three mile course in fifteen minutes, forty-two and four-fifths seconds, and was followed by Osgood, of Dartmouth, eight and two-fifths seconds later.

In the quadrangular meet with Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Columbia, the Dartmouth team followed the Ithaca runners for a second place, Pennsylvania and Columbia finishing behind in that order. Cornell's total of fifteen points was the lowest possible score, the Red and Blue jerseyed runners taking the first five places. Coakley and Young, of Dartmouth, followed R. F. Brown, the Cornell leader, within less than fifty seconds, taking sixth and seventh places. The other Dartmouth men scoring were Winsor, who finished fourteenth, Sherburne, fifteenth, and Shem, nineteenth. The team scores were Cornell 15, Dartmouth 61, Pennsylvania 81, and Columbia 83.