Cross Country Team Overpowers Penn, Lions Despite Wrong Turn

NEW YORK, October 19--Pete Reider and Jim Schlaeppi took their places, in a very minor way, beside sports immortal Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels today in Columbia's Van Cortlandt Park.

With Riegels' spirit hovering over them, Schlaeppi and Rieder, the top two Crmson finishers in today's cross-country meet with Columbia, succumbed to the sylvan subtleties of the Van Cortlandt course and took a wrong turn which resulted in their disqualification by Columbia officials.

The consequences, however, were not quite so serious as they were in 1928 when Riegels, center and captain of the University of California's Rose Bowl team, ran from Georiga Tech territory over the Rose Bowl turf to his own one-yard line, setting up a Tech touchback several seconds later.

Fourteen Point Margin

This touchback gave Tech an 8-7 victory, while the faux pas committed by the Crimson runners merely lessened the cross-country team's margin of victory to 14 and 50 points over Columbia and Penn respectively. The varsity won 25 to 39 to 75.

Columbia's Cuban-born Jose Iglesias won the race, finishing well ahead of Reider in a record time of 25 minutes, 10.2 seconds. Schlaeppi trailed his teammate by over 150 yards. However, with these two Crimson runners disqualified, the official second finisher was Columbia's Stan Abramowitz who came in 100 yards behind Schlaeppi.

After these top four came the five Crimson point-getters. Dave Norris, Mac Brown, Ralph Perry, John Read, and Bob Holmes. The harriers demonstrated their great depth even furthur by placing their entire squad of twelve men among the first fourteen finishers.

The only real interest in the day's event was the battle for the top four places. Reider, weakened by a bad cold, matched strides with the smooth-running Iglesias for the first mile and a quarter, but on the second hill, the Cuban sophomore put on a spurt to pull into a 250 yard lead at the two-mile mark.

By the last big obstacle, "Heartbreak Hill", Iglesias had increased his to almost a quarter of a mile, with Reider and Schlaeppi still ahead of Abramawitz. Reider steadily pushed ahead of Schlaeppi to finish second, unofficially by a comfortable margin.

In the freshman race, Captain Ed Martin and Wes Hildreth led all the way as they have done in their past four races to lead the Yardlings to a 17-44 win over Columbia. Dave Call finished third, Ed Marcy fifth, and Pat Liles sixth to complete the freshman scoring.