Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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Leo Casey. Danny Snltivaii. scored over the State College on their grounds. Returning from this triumph, the hill and dale forces prepared for the 38th annual Intercollegiate Championships, held at Van Cortlandt on Saturday, November l6th. A warm, sunny day favored the 300 odd en- tries of 55 colleges from Maine to North Carolina. This race was figured as a three-cornered team trophy battle between N. Y. U., Penn State and Manhattan, and a crowd of several thousand spectators witnessed the classic. First to cross the finish line was Curtis Stone of Peon State, who had won the previous week ' s Manhattan-Penn State dual meet. Coming home in fourth place, behind Stone, Black of Rhode Island and Ashen- 233

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Si t Ry.iii. Bub B nke. Lions, was the scene of the renewal of an old rivalry. This was on Saturday, No ' ember 9th, and the race was run between the hah ' es of the Temple-Penn State football game, with 17,000 spectators sitting m nn the activities. That afternoon the Manliattan team staged one of the biggest upsets of the season as they topped the Staters by a 24-31 score. State ' s Curt Stone beat out Ed Walsh for first place, but the jaspers brought in six men before the Lions scored their fourth runner. This was no mild upset, for it marked the lone dual meet defeat suffered by the Penn State team all season, and their first loss on the home course in o er six years. Likewise, it marked the first Manhattan ictorv e er 232

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Gtii y Ah ir c . felter of Penn State, was Ed OTooIe. Next to score for the Jaspers was Eddie Walsh who wound up in Idth position. The third Green and White clad runner to cross the finish line was Joe O ' Keefe, the mii hty mite who finished 31st. Fourth m the line of Jas- pers was Leo Casey, who ne ' er did show his pre-war form, but took 3 ith place. John Flinter placed 38th to complete the Jaspers scorinc. The sixth and seventh men were Bill Atkinson and Tom (]omerford, who placed 3 ' )th and -i8th respectively. hnmediately after the finish there was no doubt that N. ' . U. had won their first I. C. ■i-A. Cruss-Country Championship. The Vio- lets blossomed forth with a low score of 6°) points. The issue for the second place in the team scoring was not settled until the follow- ing day. Originally it had been announced that Manhattan and Penn State tied for second place honors, with lOi points each. The officials, however, later retabulated the order of finish and awarded the Nittany Lions second, and the Jaspers had to be con- tened with third place. More or less m the nature of anti-climax, Manhattan engaged Brooklyn College in a dual meet on Saturday, November 23rd. Rinainu down the curtain on the cross-coun- try season, Coach Eastment used a predomi- Al Rogers. »«« :. ' oK-S- »,: ; 234