Outing Club Skiers Second In I.O.C.A. Downhill Race

In spite of stiff competition from 13 other colleges, a barber shop quartet of skiers from the Outing Club scored a stunning upset yesterday morning when it captured second place in the annual Intercollegiate Outing Club Association race down the Little Dipper Trail on Moosilauke Mt., trailing the Dartmouth Outing Club.

Although no team scores were officially kept, the four-man team composed of Howie Oedel, Bob Brundage, Bill Wolfe, and Bob Townsend ended up in sixth, eighth, eleventh, and nineteenth places out of a colorful field of 40 entries, despite the desperate efforts of the Skidmore team to lure Townsend off the trail.

The first man to finish was Ed Brown of Massachusetts State, whose time of 51.2 seconds was 5.6 seconds ahead of Oedel. The first Eli to finish was twenty-ninth.