Team Takes Ivy Title In Van Cortlandt Meet

Harvard took the Ivy League Championship in the annual Heptagonal cross-country meet yesterday at New York's Van Cortlandt Park.

Led by Captain Dave Allen, who copped fourth place with 25:46, Harvard scored a total of 73 points, far away from its nearest Ivy competitor Brown, at III.

Despite the Ivy League Championship, Harvard's third place in the entire meet, after Army and Navy, was disappointing to the squad that took first place last year. Said student manager Dick Loebl, "The team wasn't satisfied with their performance as a whole. They were inexperienced in this type of meet, and it hurt them." He nevertheless predicted that Harvard would place at least four or possibly five runners on the All-Ivy team.

Harvard's order of finish was: Dave Allen, fourth; Jim Baker, 11th; Jonathan K. Chaffee, 16th; Bob Stempson, 19th. Last year's winner Walt Hewlett, suffering from a leg strain, took 23rd.

Unhappy Corner

The leading contendor for first place, Army's Jim Warner, predictably took the lead after the second mile and despite a brief duel with Columbia's Conway, stayed ahead until the last half-mile when, looking back, he recognized fellow Army runner Paul DeCoursey as his only serious competitor and slowed down to end the race in a dead heat. Unfortunately for Warner, DeCoursey came faster than expected and passed him at the last second to win the meet. Army took five out of the top ten places, ranking first with a total of 30 points.

Ivy League contenders ranked as follows: Harvard, 73; Brown, 111; Princeton, 151; Columbia, 152; Cornell, 172; Penn, 218; and Yale, 226.