Harriers Defeat B.U., M.I.T.

Unleashing a tremendous scoring punch, the varsity cross country team opened its quest for a third consecutive undefeated season by completely over-whelming its obviously outclassed opponents, Boston University and M.I.T. yesterday afternoon at Franklin Park. The final score gave the Crimson 19, the Terriers 52, and Tech 67.

Earlier, the Yardlings had opened their season on an equally auspicious note, swamping the B.U. and M.I.T. freshmen by the near-perfect score of 16 to B.U.'s 58 and M.I.T.'s 62.

In a remarkable display of depth, the varsity placed its entire 12-man squad ahead of the first M.I.T. team, and only a second place finish by B.U.'s Canadian marathon champion, George Hillier, deprived the Crimson of cross country's equivalent of the perfect game.

Pete Reider jumped into the lead at the one-half mile mark, with Dave Norris second, Bill Morris third, and Mac Brown fourth. Down the steep hill at the three-quarter mark Captain Dave McLean moved up into third position. At this point, the Crimson controlled the first 11 places.

It continued a strictly intramural race until the mile and a half mark, when Hillier, who had been running far behind, moved up into ninth spot. Reider, Norris, McLean, Bill Thompson, Jim Schlaeppi, and Brown ran for the Crimson in that order.

At the lake turn, with Reider leading by 40 yards, Hillier began to make his move, running in the sixth spot. At this point the race became merely a matter of how many varsity runners could cross the finish line before the first opponent.

At the second loop at the lake, Reider held a 60-yard lead, with Norris and McLean matching strides only five yards in front of the onrushing Hillier.

After about three miles, Hillier clipped the corner off a turn to make up his deficit and move into second place. The race then settled into a duel between him and the front-running Reider.

The strong marathoner pulled to with-in five yards of Reider going up the hill, but with one-half mile of flat running to go, Reider applied his potent finishing kick, and opened up ground on the slower Canadian. At the finish line, Reider, who led for most of the 4.4 miles, won going away by 20 yards.

Hillier finished second by ten yards over Norris, who was ten yards in front of teammate McLean. The next Crimson runner, Ralph Perry, finished nearly 200 yards behind this quartet. The other varsity scorer, Bill Thompson, finished 50 yards behind Thompson.

Following for the varsity were Schlaeppi, in seventh place, Bob Holmes, Brown, Morris, John Read, Dick Wharton, and Dyke Benjamin, 13th.

Reider's winning time of 20 minutes, 28 seconds, was far from his fastest, but will improve sharply as the season progresses.

The freshmen were led by big Ed Martin, who grabbed the lead at about the same point as Reider and held it throughout the race. He finished the shorter freshman course in 15 minutes, 14 seconds, more than 100 yards ahead of number two man, Wes Hildreth. Dane Oliver finished a surprise third, 100 yards behind Hildreth, nearly 50 yards ahead of fourth man Dave Call.

M.I.T. sneaked its number one man into the fifth position, only 20 yards ahead of the Yardlings' final scorer, Gary Brooten. Henry Marcy finished seventh and Dave Fillman 11th for the victorious Yardlings.