Cross Country

The Dartmouth cross-country team, under Coach Ellie Noyes, wound up its season by finishing a surprisingly high fourth at the Heptagonal Championships held over a five-mile course in New York's Van; Cortlandt Park. Dartmouth finished behind Cornell, Army and Navy, but ahead of the six other Eastern college teams competing in the meet.

Dartmouth's top runners - sophomore Doug Brew, Captain Dick Hogarty and Pete Jebsen - accounted for the strong showing. Brew, running his best race of the season, finished ninth among the 60odd competitors and Brew's time was only 45 seconds off the winning time, which gives some idea of how closely the runners were bunched. Captain Dick Hogarty came in 12th and Pete Jebsen 16th to account for the Green point total. Coming as it did after successive defeats by Manhattan and Harvard, the Heptagonal showing was a most encouraging end for the Big Green runners.

The week before, a strong Manhattan team had defeated Dartmouth 21-39 on the Hanover course. Manhattan's Bob Sharra went off the unfamiliar course once, lost a shoe halfway around and ran three miles with only one shoe, but still came in first followed by Dartmouth's Doug Brew. Dick Hogarty was fifth and Pete Jebsen ninth for the Indians, but Manhattan had too much power and speed for the Indians.

The Friday before the Dartmouth-Harvard football game, the Green and Crimson harriers ran against each other at Franklin Park just outside of Boston. It was close all the way with Dartmouth's Doug Brew and Harvard's Bob Wills battling to the tape. Wills won by a scant six inches with Brew second, Harvard's Dick French third, and Pete Jebsen and Dick Hogarty fourth and fifth. However, the Crimson swept the sixth through tenth places for the meet.