Cornell of Cornell

Entered in the 3,000-metre race at the intercollegiate championship track meet at Philadelphia last week was one Herbert Cornell. In the list of runners his name was notable solely because it happened to be the same as that of the university for which he was competing. That either Cornell would derive much glory from the coincidence seemed unlikely. With neither Stanford nor Southern California, perennial intercollegiate winners, competing last week, the championship seemed sure to go to Harvard.

First day of the meet Cornell surprisingly qualified nine men for the finals to Harvard's five. Next day, in the 3,000-metre run, Jim Rafferty of Fordham heard footsteps pounding behind him five yards from the finish. He turned his eyes for a fraction of a second. A runner flashed past to win the race by inches. The runner was Herbert Cornell. His victory gave Cornell's team five points--enough, with five more for Walter Wood's first in the discus throw, a substantial block of points for seconds, thirds, fourths & fifths, to win the team championship, 29 1/2-to Harvard's 19 16/21 Dartmouth's 19 3/7.

At Berkeley, Calif,, a well-rounded Southern California team, with four firsts on the track, two more in field events, won the first Pacific Coast Conference title since 1927, 53 3/4 points to Stanford's 41.

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