Cross-Country Team Runs In N.Y. Heptagonals Today

Seven Crimson cross-country runners will face some of the stiffest competition in the East at 3 p.m. this afternoon when they race in the Heptagonals at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York. Ten colleges will compete in the annual meet.

Army's Bill Shea is expected to run away with individual honors, followed by Princeton's Dick Snedeker and Ted Mearns of Yale. Army, undefeated all year, is the team favorite. The Tigers, also undefeated, should finish second, with Yale close behind. Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, Navy, Penn, and Cornell round out the competing colleges.

"We ought to finish about in the middle if all goes well," Coach Jaakko Mikkola said yesterday, "but we will be unfamiliar with the course." This may the the Crimson harriers' last race, because it is still uncertain whether they will compete in the IC4A meet in New York next week.

Dave Gregory, Dick White, Dave Cairns, Paul Judy, Captain John Pankey, Al Master, and Clark Coggeshall will represent Harvard. These have been chosen on their season's records.