CROSS COUNTRY
Led by Captain Jack Hanley, one of the best long-distance runners who ever wore the Green, Dartmouth has had an excellent cross-country season this fall. Opening against Tufts and MIT in a triangular contest, Dartmouth came in to win handily, even though Jack Hanley suffered one of his rare meet defeats at the hands (or the feet) of a former National A.A.U. 10,000 meter champion from Tufts. The second meet was against Harvard and the Green won this one also, with Hanley taking the lead at the start and never being headed. He was followed to the finish line by Dartmouth's Harmon and Blair, who finished in a two-way tie for second and thereby sewed up the meet for the Indians.
The weekend of November 2 saw the next meet, this one against RPI at Troy and run over 4.6 miles of paved roads. Jack Hanley romped in first again, followed by Harmon and Blair in the same fraternal tie. Pruden and McCaffrey of the Green tied for fourth, with one lone enemy operative thus able to wedge himself into the first five. Needless to say, the Green total gave it a wide margin over the RPI boys. On November 9, the Green entered the Heptagonal Games at Van Cortland Park and suffered its initial setback. With a full prewar contingent of hare and hounders, including the usual powerhouses from the Army and Navy, the best Dartmouth could do was a fourth behind Navy, Army, and Cornell. Jack Hanley led his mates to the tape with a fourth place, with Coyne, McCaffrey, Harmon, and Blair placing in the money.
The weekend of November 16, Coach Ellie Noyes led his charges down to New York to the ICAAAA, which numbered some 228 entries among the 32 colleges and universities represented. All the aggregations had veteran entries, many of them physically stronger at 25 or 26 than before the war when they were several years younger. The calibre of the competition was indicated by the failure of Jack Hanley (who won the event last year) to place higher than 15th, where he was followed by Harmon in 36th place and Blair in 43rd. These were the only Green harriers to finish in the first 75 and their work gave Dartmouth 7th place in the meet behind NYU, Manhattan, Penn State, North Carolina, Navy, and Syracuse. Army won the meet last year but was able to finish no better than eighth this time, directly behind Dartmouth.
