Hewlett Tops '66 Harriers, Paces Season

Cross country coach Bill McCurdy has won four Ivy League Championships and has never finished lower than third in his eleven years at Harvard. Considering the strength of this year's freshman team, Crimson running records promise to be just as brilliant in seasons to come.

The Yardlings, under mentor Ed Stowell, compiled a 7-2 autumn record and have been praised by McCurdy for being "as good as almost any freshman unit I've had."

Although his present crop of sophomores figures heavily in an 8-1 Fall record, McCurdy predicts that his freshman "may offer more support to the varsity next year than their counterparts did in 1962."

McCurdy's optimism is due in part to the running of Freshman Big Three Champion Walt Hewlett. The Yardling's top distance man set a new freshman record with a time of 14:29 against Massachusetts in October. The effort clipped a whopping 26 seconds off of the old mark established by Eddie Meehan three years ago.

Jonathan Chaffee and Captain Mike Shanahan were key performers all season and should help to compensate for the loss of senior Ed Hamlin on next year's varsity.

Coach Stowell's squad beat everybody except Massachusetts and perenially tough Cornell with a depth of running talent "not seen around here in four years."

First year man Jeff Kirk and Bill Rogerson scored points in every meet and are considered bright prospects for varsity competition. Teammates Roger Smith, Harold Tzeutschler, and Langdon Burwell were also what McCurdy termed "potentially top flight runners."