Tom Laris '62, Dartmouth's brilliant

Tom Laris '62, Dartmouth's brilliant distance runner, capped his track career to date by winning the indoor intercollegiate two-mile championship in Madison Square Garden, March 5. His record time of 8:59 sliced 7.6 seconds from the mark set by Ron Delany three years ago and served notice that he is in contention for a place on the 1960 U.S. Olympic track team.

In the Heptagonals the following Saturday he won the two-mile in the unpushed time of 9:15.3, but still cut five seconds from the meet record. This was his sixth record-breaking win in track and cross-country in sophomore year. This winter Laris set a Dartmouth indoor mile mark of 4:03.7. In cross-country last fall he set new records for the Dartmouth course (24: 54.3), the Yale course (25:41) and Boston's Franklin Park course (19:15.4).

Laris holds the Dartmouth freshman records in the indoor and outdoor mile, the indoor and outdoor two-mile, and for the Hanover cross-country course. In the freshman IC4A cross-country meet, he set a record of 14:22 for the three-mile course in Van Cortlandt Park, New York, and he also holds the freshman record for Franklin Park, Boston.