Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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T EGAINING the magic touch with - ■ ■ which Manhattan cross-country teams have been endov ed since the inception of the hill and dale sport at Jasperville, the 1947 edition of the hill and dalers compiled as enviable a record as has ever been recorded in the history of this Green and White sport. With George Eastment in his second year at the helm of the cross-country fortunes at Riverdale, the team at the start of the cam- paign in October did not gi e promise of turning into the exceptionally superior squad It eventually pro ed to be. Since Ed Walsh and Ed O ' Toole, co-captains of the previous season, had both graduated, little, if any. improvement was expected on the record turned m by the 1946 squad. In 1946 a team considered only average ran in the Green and VC ' hite silks. In placing second m the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Cross-Country Championships and third in the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America cross-country run, little was the indication thr.t the next year would 241

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1947 Onuh GEORGE EASTMENT Captani JOHN FLINTER Manager WILLIAM McCULLOUGH t Varsity Cross-Country 240

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see a campaign in w hicli the IC4-A and Met- ropolitan Intercollegiate titles would be an- nexed and Dartmouth, Army, Seton Hall, and Penn State would bow in dual meets. Traveling upstate to Syracuse for the sea- son-opener, the Jaspers were upset 22-33 by a surprisingly strong Orange squad. The de- feat, the only one of the season, was largely due to the Jaspers ' lack of condition and the ill luck that forced Jack Moran to drop out of the run because of a sudden stitch in his side. Since Moran was in the lead at the three and one-half mile mark when he re- tired, it IS not too much to presume that he would have continued on to hmsh first. If he had, the dual meet ' ictory would ha ' e been ours and the only blemish on an other- wise spotless record would not have oc- curred. The following week had Dartmouth fur- nishing the opposition on their home grounds Nal R euzo at HanoN ' er, New Hampshire. It was there that the Manhattan squad began to reach top form as eight out of the hrst ten men to cross the finish line were Jaspers. Jack Moran, free from his annoying stitch, led the entire field, The 19-36 score was an indication of the ease with which the Indians were scalped. The hills and dales of Van Cortlandt Park were occupied the folkwing week as Seton Hall opposed the Rnerdalers in the third dual meet of the young season. Easily notch- ing their second victory by virtue of a 15-40 final tabulation, the Jaspers placed fifteen men among the first twenty to finish. Paul Tiernan led the entire field in the meet. Four days later the cross-country squad again strayed from its home grounds, this time traveling to West Point where they came up against a tougher-than-expected Army squad. Nevertheless the Pointers be- came the third Jasper victim of the season, Jjck Moran 242