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CROSS COUNTRY
Harriers High Hopes Shattered
During pre-season practice it looked as if Coach Ralph Muoio had a cham­ pionship team on his hands. His first, third, and fifth runners from last year were returning and showed considerable improvement. In addition, the rest of the team showed enough strength to stay close behind the front-runners to provide valuable displacement points.
But, even before the start of the season, the team lost its first and
third men to sickness and injury. Without these two, the team, under the leadership of Co-Captain Tom Glasser, was forced to compensate for the loss. Glasser ran exceptionally well, taking a 58th place finish in the Middlesex County Meet, the best ever for the team, and 8th place in the State Meet. Allan, Estrin and Gary Johnson traded second and third positions as they cut more than a
minute from their times.
Although they gave their best, they
came up short; in Coach Muoio’s words, “ this was the season that could have been but wasn’t.”
Rams Opponent
28 H.G. Hoffman 27 15 Pennington 48 41 North Brunswick 18 26 Dwight Englewood 29 25 Middlesex 30 30 St. Peters 26 44 Peddie 17 41 St. Thomas 19 15 Newark Academy 50 44 Princeton Day 19
School
24 Dunellen 35 34 South River 25 23 Montclair- 36
Kimberly
45 Pingry 18
1. FRONT ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: J. Decker, T. Glasser, C. Lonstrup, G. Drucker, S. Whltham; SECOND ROW: R. Muccilli, C. Von der Porten, J. Le- Fever, K. Schrlever, J. Butler; THIRD ROW: Ralph Muoio, Coach, G. Johnson, G. Carpene. 2. Chris Von der Porten attempts to pass John LeFever on the final mile. 3. Tom Glasser as he nears the finish. 4. Gary Johnson and Karl Schriever battle a Pennington runner for 2nd place. 5. Peter Fleck, Brian Askew and John LeFever at the start
of a race. 6. Karl Schriever and Gregg Carpene on the second lap.