Track Squad Battles at Full Strength In IC4A Championships at Villanova

Track Coach Bill McCurdy has scraped together a full squad for the IC4A Championships at Villanova today and tomorrow, and his efforts should be rewarded with Harvard's best showing in years.

The host Wildcats are a solid favorite to take their fifth straight IC4A title, but the Crimson, winners of the Heptagonals, could beat out Manhattan for second place.

Chris Ohiri, the defending champion and meet record-holder in the triple jump, looks like McCurdy's best candidate for a first place. His 49', 5 1/4" jump in the Heps two weeks ago is the top effort in the East this spirng.

The Crimson's other first-place hopefuls are junior John Bakkensen, University record-holder in the discus, captain-elect Art Croasdale, hammer throw champion in the Penn Relays, and high jumping sophomore Chris Pardee, winner of that event in the indoor IC4A's with a Harvard-record leap of 6' 9".

Croasdale's chief obstacle will be North-easteru behemoth Bill Corsetti, whose 196' 7 1/2" hammer toss is the nation's best by a collegian this spring.

Pardee will be up against his old foes, Princeton's John Hartnett and Yale's Kim Hill. The Crimson sophomore beat these two decisively in the Heps, but each of the three owns at least one decision over the other two.

Villanova is Tough

Hurdlers Tony Lynch and Jack Spitzberg, sprinter Aggrey Awori, and miler and captain Ed Meehan also look like good bets to score, but even points from these shouldn't be enough to overtake the Villanovans.

A good indication of their strength comes from the scorecard of last week's Philadelphia Collegiate Championships. Winning Wildcat performances in that meet included Noel Carroll's 1:49.7 880-yard run, Vic Zwolak's 4:08.6 mile, Earl Horner's 0:21.2 220-yard dash, Dick Kurnik's 56' 8 1/2" shot put, and Larry Livers's 0:13.9 high hurdles and 0:52 intermediates.

Neither Army or Navy will compete in the IC4A's beacuse of their dual meet scheduled for Saturday.