Cross Country

The Dartmouth varsity cross-country team under Coach Ellie Noyes is batting along at a .500 clip with one win in two dual meets and a second place berth in two triangular meets.

The Indian runners opened their 1955 season by meeting the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and losing by a close 25-30 count. Dartmouth captain Doug Brew lost his only meet to date as he finished second to the Massachusetts ace, Dick Horn. Horn, who holds the course record, breezed home in 23 minutes and one-half second for the 4.6 mile course with Brew only 18 seconds behind.

However, Mass runners took the third and fourth places with Don Burkhardt and Jon Stokesbary finishing fifth and sixth for the Big Green. John Ceely came in eighth for Dartmouth, with Dave Chapin and John Hobbie 10th and nth.

In the first triangular meet of the season Dartmouth lost to Boston University 27-30, but defeated M.I.T. 26-30. The Indians were paced by Captain Doug Brew who romped home in first place, defeating Bill Terry, last year's intercollegiate champion, and Canadian marathon star Tom Hiller, both of B.U.

On the following week Brew repeated his performance by finishing first in a triangular meet against Yale and Columbia. Yale won the meet, which was held in New Haven, with a score of 21 followed by Dartmouth with 38 and Columbia 77. Brew ran the four and onehalf mile course in a. 25:22 time, but the Elis swept second through fourth place for the meet. Jon Stokesbary took a sixth place for the Indians with John Ceely eighth and John Hobbie and Don Burkhardt in 14th and 15th places.

The most recent meet - a dual affair with Brown - saw Dartmouth easily outdistance the Bruins over a familiar Hanover course. Captain Brew finished first for the third time this season with a clocking of 26:56.1, his best on the Dartmouth course to date. Jon Stokesbary finished second, a minute behind Brew, with Dartmouth sophomores John Ceely and Pete Jaquith fourth and fifth. Final score: Dartmouth 18, Brown 41.

Coach Noyes is pleased with his team's showing to date, but feels that in the stiffer meets ahead a lack of depth will begin to show.