CROSS COUNTRY

You have to go back many moons to recall the last time Dartmouth's cross-country team opened its season with five straight victories but, on the eve of its meet with powerful Harvard, that's how the Indians stand.

Paced by sophomore Eric Potter from Clinton, N.Y., who has won every race he has started to date and has consistently lowered his own record for the new 5.5 3-mile Dartmouth course at the Hanover Country Club, the Indians have swept past Colgate, Boston State, Yale, Columbia, and Brown with surprising ease.

Potter has had able support from Captain Mark Hamilton from Scarsdale, N.Y., as well as from Dave Ullrich, Steve Shirey and Parke Rublee, all veteran performers.

A quick word about a new face on the running scene: freshman Tom Shiland from Cambridge, N.Y., has been duplicating Potter's record pace for the Little Indians, who are also unbeaten entering the Harvard encounter.

"We couldn't be more pleased with the progress of the sophomores and the improvement over past performance of the upperclassmen," said Ken Weinbel, in his first season as Dartmouth's coach.