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FALL, 1966 Cornell University Ithaca, New York ENGLAND 1966 1966 CROSS COUNTRY A deceptively strong combined Cornell-Pennsylvania track team mustered at the Commodore-Hilton Motor Lodge in New York City on June 8th, and all athletes, though despairing from the loss of academic mantles, looked forward to the next three weeks as principals in a summer drama in jock-dom. A last whiskey sour that evening signified the end of their ordinary mortal lives and in nighttime dreams, each became another Roger Bannister, John Pennel, Glenn "Jeep" Davis, or Tamara Press. The "Jeep" himself had visions of hurdle runs leaping through his mind and an occasional nightmare troubled his sleep as he figured his dwindling chances of surviving another airplane flight. (#3,336 comin' up, right coach?) His tossing and turning was wasted effort as Pan Am winged the motley musclers to London airport—safely. (It makes good airline business to deliver—intact.) A brief stay at Stowe School in Stafford initiated the training aboard and gave everyone an idea of the rural life of Great Britain. Tom Garthwaite, Cornell's personi- fication of rural America (Port Allegany, Pennsylvania), VARSITY CROSS COUNTY — FALL 1966 met head-on with open prejudice when he was whistled-at Top row: Chet Judah, Pete Simons, Bob Tallo, Don and cat-called while roaming the streets of Buckingham— Robinson, Merle Tousant, Coach Davis. in tight Madras, Bermuda shorts. (Good thing for the bigots he didn't have his javelin at hand!) Any hard Bottom row: Manager Ed Eisenhard, Dave Fradin, feelings or bad impressions were dissolved at Stowe, Dan Ousley, Gordon McKusick, Nat White, Manager where co-operation and community spirit made the entire Jay Kirkpatric. visit resemble a cordial, Sunday afternoon cricket match. (Only when the Americans changed the game to baseball The 1966 varsity cross country had a trying season for did things happen: Pennsylvania's Dave Goodwin got both the coach and the runners. The season started with al- nipped in the lip, then stitched, leaving a rather foul taste most the complete varsity team coming back to school in in HIS mouth!) poor physical condition. It was hoped that each individual In Glasgow, Scotland, the more urbanized members of could gut out the first race with Colgate enough to win the squad found shops and souvenir-hunting with which but the individuals just weren't in shape. Gordon McKusick to keep themselves busy, while the nature-lovers went was in shape and set a new record on the Colgate course for drives up "the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond"; of 25 minutes and 52 seconds. The rest of the team didn't the rain-lovers took side trips to Edinburgh Castle; and fare as well with Dave Fradin and Ron Nehring taking the golfers putted around world renowned Saint Andrews seventh and eighth places respectively and Dan Ousley, golf course. Cornell's weight specialist, Tom Fraus, bought Jack Bulk, Chet Judah and Merle Tousant finishing in the a kilt for his mother, but finding it a perfect fit, philo- tenth through thirteenth places. Many say it was due the sophically mused, "In Scotland, do as the Scots do," and cold rain falling during the race at Colgate, but the became the first mini-skirted ape. Team confidence soared team had had only a week's practice and was not ready as the Yankees defeated Atalanta Club 93-78 with an for a race early in the season. Two more weeks of train- impressive triple win by Cornell's Bill Bruckel in the 100-, ing helped improve our conditioning, but a strong Syracuse 220-, and 440-yard dashes. team still managed to sneak by Cornell in a triangular After a brief visit to Oxford, the team travelled to Cam- meet including Syracuse, Hartwick and Cornell. The scores bridge for a week of intensive training with Cambridge were 36, 51 and 38 respectively putting Cornell in a close athletes P. Egon (dasher), Wendell Motley (prancer), Mel second position. It was discovered that if the teams had Edwards (comet) and Steven Cohen (vixen). Ed Zak, for run against Cornell separately that two victories could SOME reason out past midnight curfew, impaled his foot have been ours, but still we had to face up to our poor on a sharply-spired, locked entry gate, and Cornell's conditioning which would not expose the potential which coach Lou Montgomery anticipated a tetanus-weakened the team had. McKusick again took first in the race com- broad-jumping contingent. But 'you can't hurt steel' and ing within three tenths of a second of the Moakley course Ed was in the line-up June 22nd at Crystal Palace Stadium. record and adding a mere one point to Cornell's score. Cornell hurdler John Elliot met "Long John Silver" in a For the next meet the Harriers ventured to Boston to social get-together, and Tom Fraus and Penn's Henry meet Harvard in a dual meet. The trip was long and sleep Smith almost lost some silver coin in another encounter not as plentiful as it should have been. The team started in London's infamous Soho. But the overall result of the out in the race poorly letting the Crimson take most of (Continued, on page 4) (Continued on page 3) INDOOR TRACK talent that is going to make this a great season. Coach and Coach Tom Pagani are devoting time to Anyone receiving this paper is probably familiar with every individual and are being met with enthusiastic sup- Ithaca and Cornell papers. According to the articles on port. Coach Davis in his first season as head coach sees the prospects for the 1966-67 indoor season of the Cornell some very fine talent among the reserves and is in the track team, the story is lack of depth. These articles are process of developing some more unbeatables. Coach attempts at realism and are even optimistic as far as pre- Pagani in his first season as assistant Coach has won the dicting Cornell's showing in "big" meets such as the Hep- respect of all who work with him. Being a former NCAA tagonals and the IC4A's. The reason given for this spark hammer throw champion Coach Pagani has a great of optimism is that in the "big" meets depth doesn't count. knowledge of most of the field events which has been a It's having that small group of "unbeatables" that wins the great help to our team's scoring ability in these events. "big" ones. Cornell has its "unbeatables". Our depth is now the biggest concern. With the outstand- This group is led by this year's captain, Bill Bruckel. ing individuals that we have a winning season is surely Bill proved himself last year by winning the Heptagonal at hand this indoor season. But Cornell could have a truly indoor 600 championship and the outdoor quarter mile in great season if its depth meets the challenge. the IC4A's and Heptagonal Championships. He also runs a pretty good anchor leg (46.0 at the Penn Relays) for the mile relay team that will probably change the record a few times before it finishes the season. The rest of this mile relay team is Emanuel (Pudge) Carter, one of Cor- COACH PAGANI nell's most promising sophomores, Dave Mansfield and Bruce Butcher, two seniors who always seem to put out a One good reason to take an optimistic outlook on this little extra for the relay. year's track season is Cornell's new assistant coach, Another outstanding performer for Cornell is John Pagani. Coach Pagani quickly earned the Elliot co-holder of the 120 yard high hurdles record in respect of Cornell trackmen through his own track ac- 14.2. If John can manage to combine a good start with complishments and especially through his willingness and his typically strong finish as was shown in the Heptagonal eagerness to work with any boy. He is concentrating on high hurdles Championship when John came over the last the field events and is developing an extensive weight hurdle in third place and coming through to win the race, training program for these events. he could reach his indoor goal of 7.1 seconds for the 60 Coach Pagani is from the Bronx where he attended yard high hurdles. John also likes to make the members Mount Saint Michael High School. He played an end on of that mile relay team work for their spots. the football team as a junior and senior. He participated in Another outstanding senior who will be winning those track four years, running the hurdles, the quarter, the valuable points for Cornell is weightman Tom Fraus. Tom relays, and throwing the javelin. Just before starting to and Chuck Roll, holder of the freshman shot put record attend California State Polytechnical College, from which and center of the football team now as a junior, besides he graduated in 1962, he started throwing the hammer. being two of last year's more dependable performers are In 1961 he won the NCAA championship in both the in- also two of the fastest improving. door and outdoor shot, the indoor 35 pound weight throw, Bob Holmes and Bruce Sorrie are outstanding in the and the hammer outdoors. He is a Quantico relays Cham- broad jump. Bob has sported injuries for the past two years pion and four times National AAU All-around champ. but still managed to get the best leap in the Ivy league The All-around Championship is a decathalon type of last year, 23 feet 10 inches. If Bob is healthy this year, he event done in one day instead of two. In winning one of might finally win that Heps championship he has wanted the championships he broke All-around cham- for two years. When Bob hasn't been healthy Bruce Sorrie pionship point record. He was a member of two interna- in the broad jump has been a strong performer and all tional teams in 1961 and 1964, and he was fifth in the indications are that he will be even better this year. hammer throw in the 1960 Olympic trials. His best hammer throw is 203 feet 8 inches. Wayne Gustafson is one of the top two or three high jumpers in the East. Wayne came to Cornell two years His coaching career began a Boonton High School in ago as a six foot high jumper as he claimed and left for Boonton, New Jersey where he started as an assistant England last year a six foot ten inch high jumper. Wayne football coach. In 1964 he became assistant track coach will try and probably succeed in becoming a member of at Columbia. There he concentrated on coaching the field the elite seven foot club. events and helped Ed Doernberger to place in the Heps and IC4A weight events. He was with Columbia until Other strong performers who will be scoring for the he joined the Cornell staff this year. Big Red this season are Neal Fox and Gordon Stofer in the , Carl Von Ende, Ron Nehring and Fred Coach Pagani and his wife, Diane, have been married Spar in the 1000 yard run. Chip Blaugrund in the sprint, eight years and have three children; Steven, seven, Gregg, and Maurice Page in the broad jump. four and Cathy, two. A sophomore who is destined to become and probably already is one of Cornell's finest runners ever is Gordon McKusick. After being disappointed by injuries in the Cross Country season, Gordy is determined to put his name CORNELL WASTEBASKET in the championship ranks this indoor season. No one doubts that Gordy will be there and soon. Co-Editors: Gary Campbell and Nat White These are the men that are going to lead this team to Assistants: Gordon McKusick, Jay Kirkpatric a good season. But the people who will make it a great President of the Spiked Shoe Society: Dave Mansfield season are the ones whose names haven't been men- tioned. This depth as it is always called, is full of very fine Treasurer of the Spiked Shoe Society: John Elliot Last Year's Best Performances

100—Bruckel, 9.8

220—Bruckel, 21.2

440—Bruckel, 47.4

880—Von Ende, 1:54.1

Mile—Ingraham, 4:22.0

Two Mile—Cunningham, 9:28.0

120 HH—Elliot, 14.2

440 H—Berger, 54.0

Mile Relay—Elliot, Butcher, Berger, Bruckel, 3:15.7 VARSITY TRACK — SPRING 1966 Discus—Fraus, 158' 1" Row 1: Manager, Carl Von Ende, John Nelson, Bill Strolk, Nat White, Bob Strauss, Ed Lanzner, Chuck Triple Jump—Holmes, 46' 5%" Broody, Manager. Broad Jump—Holmes, 22' 10%" Row 2: Manager, Bruce Sorrie, Gary Campbell, Jim Sheehey, Don Robinson, Cory Byard, Pete Simons, High Jump—Gustafson, 6' 10" Ben Levy, Neal Fox, Manager. Pole Vault—Fox, 14' 3" Row 3: John Elliot, Bruce Butcher, Dave Mansfield, Wayne Gustafson, Dick Berger, Coach Montgomery, Javelin—Lanzner, 193' 8" Pat Mulcahy, Coach Davis, Bill Bruckel, Tom Fraus, Shot—Roll, 51' 5%" John Stanat, Lynn Cunningham, Roger Ingraham.

Indoor

600—Bruckel, 1:10.2 record of 25 minutes, 47.2 seconds covering the five and 1000—Butcher, 2:14.8 one sixteenth miles 18.3 seconds faster than the old record holder Steve Machooka back in 1961. Pete Simons who 35# Throw—Fraus, 56' 5Vi" had been working out with the soccer team ran his first Two Mile relay—Ingraham, Flemming, Strok, Hoss, 8:18.4 race of the season and came in second for the team. These individual performances however don't win cross country Mile Relay—Elliot, Butcher, Mansfield, Bruckel, 3:20.6 meets. It looked like Cornell was out for a losing season with only one dual meet left with Army. Army has always been strong and again managed to take second through ninth places with Jon Nolan and Greg Camp, Army's leading runners, taking second and third for Army. Coach tried to get the team to start faster so they could stick together CROSS COUNTRY (Continued) with the strong Army team. It worked for the first mile the top positions in the first two miles. Then a blow to the and a half and then we fell back. Now the dual meets team's morale came when "Gordi" had to drop out because were over and the Heps were next. In the bigger meets of a severe leg cramp. His loss was multiplied through- the team has a better chance with more teams running out the team as they saw him walking by the roadside and more displacement by other runners from many more ar\d their spirit dropped. Harvard took the first ten places teams. This displacement however can work the other way before a Cornell man crossed the finish line. Chet Judah as it did against Cornell. The Big Red came in last with a managed to come in eleventh and Don Robinson, Dave total of 268 points. Lawlor of Navy came in first and Fradin, Ron Nehring and Jack Bulk finished thirteenth Hardin of Harvard took second. McKusick two nights through seventeenth respectively. Harvard placed a per- previous to the Heps was running on the roads to loosen fect 15 against our meager 50. The freshmen were also out for the big race to come. On a particularly dark por- defeated at Harvard but fine performances were put tion of the road he slipped off the shoulder and fell into forth by Guy Renfro and Bruce Earle. The team came the ditch hurting his hip and upper portion of his leg. He \back to the Moakley course to meet Yale the next Satur- thought this would clear up before the Heps, but during day. The team was discouraged from the previous weeks the race it started to hurt as he attemped to run up the but coach inspired us with a few words and his usual hills of the course at Van Courtland Park. He went off glow of confidence. Yale having a strong team and not the side of the trail so the rest of the team wouldn't see hearing coach's words beat Cornell 20 to 37. Gordon him dropping back and then he proceeded to finish the McKusick as usual won the race by a good margin and race at a much slower pace which brought him second during the race was able to push himself to a new course to last far behind the main pack of runners. McKusick wh