Cross Country

This has not been an outstanding season for the cross country team. The reason for the comparative lack of success of Coach Ellie Noyes' aggregation is not difficult to find. It rests in the simple fact that he does not have enough boys who can run both far enough and fast enough to win very many meets. Captain Stan Smiley, it is true, ranks with the best of the intercollegiate harriers in these parts, but after him the talent drops off pretty fast. Smiley can usually be counted upon to finish at or near the top in a dual meet, after which the opposition generally bunches enough runners to win the meet before the rest of the Dartmouth boys can cross the finish line.

This unhappy state of affairs was clearly illustrated in the Harvard meet, which was held over the hilly reaches of the local golf course on the same day the Green took Harvard in the Stadium. In this meet, Smiley came in first in expected fashion, only to be followed by six assorted Harvards before another Dartmouth man could finish. The next green-shirted runner to come in was seventh-place Morrissey, who had been bothered all week with a heavy cold and was not up to his best work. After him came Rosenberg, Ritner, Ashnault, Daniell, and Richardson, all of Dartmouth. But the damage had been done with the Harvard runners bunched from second to sixth inclusive, and Harvard won the meet by the score of 20-39. (Our readers will, of course, remember that in this sport the lowest score wins.) This has been the way it has gone most of the fall.