CROSS-COUNTRY TEAM LOSES

New Haven, Conn., November 13, 1907.--The Yale cross-country team defeated the University team here this afternoon in the first run ever held between the two universities by the score of 35 to 44. Nine men ran on each team, the first six for each scoring according to the numerical value of their positions at the finish, and the team with the least score winning. M. B. Vilas '08, of Yale, finished first, covering the six and three-quarters-miles course in 37m., 51s., which was considered good, as the wind was very chilly and quite strong.

The race started from the Yale athletic field and ran for five miles through fields and over dirt and macadam roads. A mile and a half from the finish two Harvard and four Yale men were closely bunched. As the men came on to the track for the last quarter, Vilas led by 40 yards; Spitzer followed 20 yards behind; and Raynolds, with Crosby close behind him, was next with an interval of 20 yards. By a wonderful spurt, Crosby passed Raynolds and Spitzer with 300 yards to go, but he was unable to pass Vilas, who finished strong. These first four men were closely bunched, but the others were strung out for fully half a mile. The order at the finish was as follows: M. B. Vilas '08, of Yale, 1; M. S. Crosby '08, 2; R. A. Spitzer '09, of Yale, 3; R. Raynolds '10, of Yale, 4; M. H. Whitney '09, 5; C. F. Luther '08, of Yale, 6; R. E. Dole '10, 7; A. M. Haskell '10, of Yale, 8; P. W. Carter '10, 9; C. Lanier '10, 10; R. F. Hoyt '10, 11; M. D. Kiyasoff '10, of Yale, 12; J. E. Field '08, of Yale, 13; E. L. Souder '10, 14; W. R. Leete '08, of Yale, 15; J. R. Coolidge '10, 16; E. B. Smith '08, 17.

The team will return to Cambridge tonight.

The next contest will be the intercollegiate cross-country run at Princeton on November 27.