Cross Country

The mainstay on the Big Green cross country team this fall under Coach Ellie Noyes has been Captain Doug Brew. Brew was the only Dartmouth runner entered in the recent IC4A cross-country championships at Van Cortland Park in New York, but unfortunately he sprained an ankle during the race and did not finish.

A week earlier, over the same course, Dartmouth finished in eighth place (out of ten) in the annual Heptagonal race. Brew led the pack of 69 runners for three and one-half miles, but Dave Eckel and Mike Midler from Cornell hung on grimly and finally passed him, with Eckler winning and Brew finishing third. The only other Dartmouth runner to finish came in 39th. Cornell won the meet.

Van Cortland Park was also the site of the Dartmouth-Manhattan dual meet which Manhattan won easily 19-44. Brew ran second to Manhattan's intercollegiate champion, Bob Sbarra, with John Ceely placing 12th for the only other points.

In an earlier dual meet Harvard defeated Dartmouth 21-38, but Doug Brew set a new Hanover course record with a clocking of 25:57.4, cutting 23 seconds from the old record held by John Kelly of Boston University. The Crimson, however, finished five men among the top seven.

The Dartmouth freshman cross-country runners, after wins over Boston University, Yale, Columbia and Brown, lost out to a strong Harvard team to end the season. The '59 team has several promising distance runners who should step up to the varsity squad with ease next fall.