Sports

CROSS COUNTRY

December, 1923
Sports
CROSS COUNTRY
December, 1923

In its opening meet of the season the Dartmouth cross country team running against the Vermont cross country team at Burlington, Vt., October 20 made a clean sweep of the race by taking the first eight places. Captain Letteney, Collins, Osgood, Nazro, Udall, and Winsor crossed the finish line of the fourand-a-half-mile course abreast with Healey and Ryder taking seventh and eighth places immediately afterward. No other Dartmouth men were entered.

At Cambridge, October 27, Dartmouth finished five men among the first nine qualifiers and won a triangular meet with Harvard and the Universiy of Maine. The score was Dartmouth 33, Maine 36, Harvard 66. Hillman and Captain Raymond, both of Maine, were the first men to cross the finish line, the former winning with a time of 27 minutes, 28 seconds for the five-mile course. Cutcheon, of Harvard, finished third, and Osgood, of Dartmouth, fourth. Osgood's time for the race was 27 minutes, 55 seconds. Udall, of Dartmouth, finished fifth, Collins seventh, Nazro eighth, Letteney ninth, and Winsor tenth.

The Cornell cross-country team was defeated in Hanover, November 3, by a score of 36 to 69 when Dartmouth took the first three places and three more among the first eight at the finish line. Captain Letteney, of Dartmouth, was unable to run because of a leg injury. Nazro, of Dartmouth, finished the five-mile course first with a time of 27 minutes, 22 seconds. Osgood, of Dartmouth, was second, Collins third, Udall fifth, Winsor sixth, and Healey eighth.

At New York, November 10, Dartmouth won the annual quadrangular race with Columbia, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania. Dartmouth's score was 33, Columbia following in second place with 39, Cornell 69 and Pennsylvania 72. The distance was six miles. Kirby, of Cornell, won the race with a time of 33 minutes, 54 seconds, with Nazro, of Dartmouth, but a second behind him. Osgood, of Dartmouth, finished fifth, Captain Letteney seventh, Udall ninth, and Collins tenth.

The freshman cross-country team placed the first three runners and three more among the first ten to finish in the dual meet with the Harvard freshmen, at Cambridge, October 27, and won by a score of 21 to 35. Dalrymple, of Dartmouth, finished the four-and-a-half-mile course first in 23 minutes and 6 seconds. Martin, of Dartmouth, was second, Auer third, Mullen sixth, Duplin ninth, and Murray tenth. Following the race R. A. Dalrymple of Boston, who won, was elected by the runners to captain the freshman team.

At Hanover, November 6, the freshman team defeated the New Hampshire University freshmen by a score of 29 to 30. Captain Dalrymple, Auer, and Mullen of the freshmen finished the three-mile course abreast in 17 minutes and 10 seconds. Captain Little field of New Hampshire followed and his team mates took the remaining places in the first ten, Dartmouth's fourth runner finishing in eleventh place.