Ogdensburg Free Academy - Devilog Yearbook (Ogdensburg, NY)

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l 1 1.7 Sfllldlllg Paul Tulloch Pete Cole Bill Stilson Bob Osgood Kneeling Carl ,Iesmer Tom Plantx 6l'0S5' Kvuntry Returning to Cross Country after a lapse of four years Ogdcnsburg Ircc Academy emerged as Section 10 Cross Country Champions of the 195f season Coached by Alton Elliott director of athletics OFA had a yery successful season winning one of two meets and the section 10 Championships. The team was composed of Carl esmer crack miler on the 1957 track team also half miler Tom Planty and Pete Cole of the same team. esmer and Planty ran 1 2 in all meets and were undefeated in league compe, tition. Newcomers to the harrier squad were Paul Tulloch Bill Stilson and Bob Osgood. Th Blues' first league meet was the Gouverneur Invitational. Contestants were O.Ii.A. Gouverneur and Carthage. esmer and Planty ran first and second oyer the 213 mile course at the Gouverneur Golf Club. Gouverneurs number one team was second behind Ogdensburgs low team score of 37 with 42. Carthages number two team finished third with 54. Stilson placed eighth Cole twelfth and Osgood fourteenth. Following the cancellation of the XVatertown Invitational due to bad weather the Blue and Wfhite Harriers traveled to Norwood to meet 11 teams in the Norwood In- vitationals. esmer and Planty' again finished 1 2. esmer covered the 2.3 mile course in 9158.5 seconds but Massena captured team first with 47 points. O.F.A. was next having 56 Norward third with 60 and Gouverneur fourth. Cole finished thirteenth with Stilson taking fourteenth. Tulloch and Osgood ended twenty-fifth and thirty'-first respectively. In the final meet of the season at the Section 10 Cross Country Finals O.F.A. copped the title. esmer and Planty crossed the line again first and second to give their team a good start. Stilson and Cole who has been running around 11 or 12 in meets with smaller schools gave it all they had and finished 11 and 12 in a large field of entries. Bob Osgood also a hard worker ran twenty-first with Tulloch finishing twenty-second. 'Iesmer completed the course in 11:35.8.