CROSS COUNTRY

This has been a year of development in cross country. With the only senior on the team, Captain David Blair, placed on probation after the summer term, the rest of the aggregation was composed of sophomores and juniors. The outstanding performer was Captain-elect Stan Waterman who turned in some outstanding two-mile performances on the track last spring and already ranks with Jack Hanley as one of the best distance men to wear the Green in recent years. The other members of the seven-man competitive squad were Lew Geer, Norm Crisp Jr., Warren Daniel!, Ken Anderson, Terry Guider, and Dick McSorley. All of these men have one or more seasons left. So when we said "building," we meant just that.

The first meet of the season was held at Ithaca a week after the opening of college. Strength in the middle balance decided the encounter for Cornell in the rarefied atmosphere above the waters. This general pattern was followed in the other dual meets, with Waterman finishing up near the front, but with insufficient team strength to help much in the scoring. In the Ivy League Nonagonals, Dartmouth finished fifth (out of nine), largely as a result of Waterman's close third place over a rain-soaked 5-mile course. Anderson came in with only one shoe and Geer limped in with a bad spike hole which he had sustained at the start of the race. Norm Crisp Jr. was the second Dartmouth finisher in the Nonagonals and combined with the above-mentioned trio to keep Dartmouth in the money.

The freshman cross-country team contained several outstanding prospects this fall. Combined with the all-sophomore and junior contingent that carried the ball all season for the varsity, Coach Noyes should look for better things next fall. The added experience and, above all, the added strength of these performers should make them formidable contenders for Ivy League honors.