Track
On a chilly Saturday afternoon a week before Green Key houseparties, Coach Ellie Noyes and his runners, jumpers, and throwers made a gallant fight but lost out by a narrow margin to a favored Harvard aggregation that had just a bit more depth and diversity. The score was 77-63. The Green was beaten on the track, as distinguished from the field, for the home forces were able to produce only four running victories—the two hurdles, the two-mile and the mile relay. The boys did all right in the field, contrary to the practice in some other years when they were well equipped with runners but light on throwers. Here- with some of the pertinent details.
The high point of the day for Dartmouth was the performance of Captain Pete McCreary, who celebrated his final appearance on Memorial Field by placing in no less than four events. He won his specialties, the high and low hurdles, with dispatch, although he was pressed in each case by a Harvard. The meet was so close, with every point counting, that Coach Noyes entered his versatile captain in both dashes. McCreary came through gallantly with a second in the 220 and a third in the 100, thereby garnering a total of 14 points for his afternoon's work. In this unselfish iron-man performance, McCreary might have sacrificed a College record in the low hurdles. As it was, he came within a fifth of a second of the record at 34 seconds flat, after having run three other races before, all against a strong cross wind. As frequently noted in these columns, McCreary is an Olympic prospect and we wish him well, for country and for Dartmouth.
The Dartmouth points in the rest of the running events were gathered as follows: Mike Morrissey a second in a rather slow mile; Sam Daniell a second in a 49.4 quarter; McLaughlin a third in the half; Walt Clarkson a first in the two-mile, with Gilges of Dartmouth taking third; and a Dartmouth team consisting of Danforth, Booty, Huck, and Daniell winning the mile relay. In the field events, the boys did better, to wit: Alan Reich a first in the javelin, with a 193 foot toss, with Simpson of Dartmouth in third place; Nels Ehinger, his customary first in the high jump, with a leap of 6' 2"; Dick Calkins a first in the broad jump with 22' 10", with Simpson of the Green third.
Continuing the tabulation of the field events, big George Rambour took a second in the discus (in which he holds the College record) and another second in the shot. Hill of Dartmouth slipped in a third in the discus. In the hammer throw, Dartmouth was able to get no better than Bob Jeffrey's third. McKee of Dartmouth took a second in the pole vault, to end the scoring for the Green. This would have been a nice one to win, for Coach Ellie Noyes always likes to beat Yale indoors and Harvard outdoors.
Addendum. Just thirty years ago this April, the 120-yard high hurdles at the Penn Relays were won by Dartmouth's great Earl (Tommy) Thomson, fresh from his triumph in the Olympic Games. In the Penn Relays of 1952. the 120-yard high hurdles were also won by a runner in Green, Captain Pete McCreary. This year s games were run under possibly the worst weather conditions in their history, and the track was deluged by continuous and torrential rains. It was so wet, indeed, that the hurdles were shifted from the track to the (wet) grass, which is considerably slower than a fast track. McCreary won in 15 seconds flat which, believe it or not, is the same time as Tommy Thomson's was thirty years ago.
