Harvard-Yale Crushes English in Track

The weather was horrendous for track and field competition yesterday, forcing four field events indoors, but it made little difference to the Harvard-Yale thinclads in their meet with a squad of Oxford-Cambridge, England athletes. The Crimson-Eli tandem crushed the visiting English team, 11-5, to win its fourth straight in this international series.

All eleven wins for the Harvard-Yale squad were by Harvard athletes, including two by Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace. Vanderpool-Wallace captured both the long and triple jumps (which were held inside because of the weather) and set a new Harvard indoor record for the triple with a 49 ft. 2 1/2 in. leap.

Vanderpool-Wallace spearheaded a clean sweep in the field events for Harvard-Yale. In other field events, Adrian Tew easily won the javelin with a 215 ft. 5 in. heave, Dick Gilbane took the discus at 149 ft. 6 in., Mel Embree went 6 ft. 8 1/2 in. in the high jump to win and Jay Hughes won the shot put.

The running events were hampered by a muddy track, but there were still a couple of outstanding performances. Harvard's Baylee Reid won the hundred in 10.1 (.2 seconds off his best time), despite the fact that the entire hundred course was under water.

Oxford's Anthony Moore won the three-mile and set a new meet mark with a superlative 14:12.0 time in the blustery and wet conditions.

Dewey Hickman won the 120 high hurdles in a sluggish 15.2 time, and Mike Horner took the 220. The Harvard-Yale 440-yard relay closed out the Crimson-Eli scoring with a 55.0 second triumph.

The English team's strength was centered in its middle and long distance runners. Besides Moore, Oxford's Phil Lewis edged Bill McLeod of Yale in the 880 by .9 seconds, finishing in 1:57.8. And in the supposed feature race of the day Julian Goater won the mile with a 4:13.0, .9 seconds over John Quirk. Favorite Robert Steele finished a dismal fourth. Oxford-Cambridge also won the 440 and the 440-yard hurdles.