Cornell Wins Heptagonals; Crimson Takes Fifth Place

NEW YORK CTTY, Nov. 5 Jack Rosenblum, Cornell's midget0-sized ace turned on a tremendous last-mile kick today to capture his second straight Heptagonal cross-country title, and insure the Big Red of Ithaca a successful defense of the team title it won last year. Cornell totaled 48 points.

Harvard placed a disappointing fifth in team standings.

Just as he did last year, the 140-pound engineering student stayed even with the pack for three miles and then overtook Princeton's sophomore star Jack Vodrey, coming down Cemetery Hill in the homentreteh.

wills Takes Third

Hehind Vodrey came Al Wills, the Crimson's number one man. Rosonblum's winning time over a very soft Van Cortland Park course was 25:48.4 seconds, two minutes faster than his winning time last year.

The pace was so fast, in fact, that the first 18 men all had hotter times than Rosenbaum's 1953.0 and Wills in 25:56.

Army, repeating its last year's finish, placed second, with 60 points, followed by Navy with 73, Dartmouth 119, Harvard 124, Princeton and Penn each 172, Vale 177, Columbia 201, and Brown 276.

Dartmouth Surprises

The powerful Big Red, which finished its dual meet season with only one less, that to perennially strong Syracuse, placed three men in the first seven, a rare feat in a championship meet. Don Farley was fourth, and Paul Loberg was seventh for the Big Red.

For the first three miles, Roisenbaum, Vodrey, Wills, Ralph Stephenson and Robert Wray, both of Army were running even, but then Rosenbaum and Vodrey pulled in front of the other runners.

The only other Crimson runner to place in the top 20 was senior Paul Beck, who finished 17th.

Dartmoth, with three runners in the top 20-doug Brew, Bob Hogarty, and peter Jepson--edged out the crimson for fourth. It was known that Cornell, army, and Navy were distinct powers, but Harvard, which had beaten the Green on the way to its undefeated season, was expected to place higher than Dartmouth.