This Day in Observe & Subject/X-Nation–November 25
1859–Main from the beginning, Nice Britain’s William Means ran 2:04.0 at Oxford to set a “world file” for 880-yards.
1908–The dramatic ending to the Olympic Marathon in London in July drew worldwide consideration. Italian Dorando Pietri staggered throughout the end line in first place, however was disqualified for receiving help from well-meaning officers. American Johnny Hayes was declared the winner and the clamor for a rematch started virtually instantly. One was organized–however it will be held indoors on the small monitor at NY’s famed Madison Sq. Backyard! The race would require the runners to circle the Backyard’s 10-laps to-the-mile monitor a mere 262 instances!
The Backyard was filled with supporters of each runners, with nationwide pleasure evidenced by American and Italian flags flying in every single place.
Pietri led for many of the race, and when he crossed the 26-mile mark within the lead, his followers thought the race was over and swarmed onto the monitor. Feelings had been excessive, with fights breaking out as police and officers did their finest to permit the runners to finish the ultimate two laps. A path was lastly cleared, with Pietri successful by lower than a minute over Hayes (2:44:20-2/5 to 2:45:03-1/5). The NY Instances referred to as it the “…most spectacular foot race that New York ever has witnessed” and the occasion was so fashionable that various related skilled races ensued, with Pietri beating Hayes a 2nd time earlier than taking over different challengers.
1940–Ashland’s Gil Dodds, later often called “The Flying Parson”, received the person title (4-Miles), whereas Indiana edged Japanese Michigan (often called Michigan Regular on the time) for the crew title (65-68) on the 3rd NCAA X-Nation Championships in East Lansing, Michigan. Dodds would go on to change into certainly one of America’s finest milers, setting a U.S. File of 4:06.5 in 1943, three World Indoor Data, and successful three Wanamaker Miles on the Millrose Video games. He received the Sullivan Award, given to the nation’s high novice, in 1943.
2nd within the race was Notre Dame’s Ollie Hunter, who would win the 1942 NCAA title.
Outcomes:
(10 groups, 90 finishers)
Dodds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Dodds
1944–After a yr’s hiatus as a result of World Warfare II, the NCAA X-Nation Championships had been again on the schedule, with Drake’s Fred Feiler successful the primary of his two titles. Teammates Ashley Hack and Howard Johnston completed 2-3 as Drake began a 3-year successful streak underneath the steering of future Corridor-of-Famer Invoice Easton, who later coached Kansas to the 1953 crew title.
Outcomes: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1944-men.pdf
(Solely 6 groups, 43 finishers)
1946–Ohio Wesleyan’s Quentin Brelsford (20:22.9) was the person winner on the NCAA X-Nation Championships in East Lansing, Michigan, whereas Drake received its Third-straight crew title. Penn State’s Curt Stone, a future 3-time Olympian, was an in depth 2nd (20:24), and 2-time defending champion Fred Feiler (Drake) completed 6th (20:56).
Ending 59th for Oklahoma was future TV star Invoice (Dennis) Weaver, who went on to play Chester on Gunsmoke and later the title character in McCloud!
Brelsford, a WWII Veteran, sat with Gary Cohen in 2017 for an interview (see hyperlink).
Led by Frank Dixon’s 8th-place end, NYU positioned 2nd within the crew scoring with 98 factors. That’s nonetheless the very best end ever by a member of the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Convention (Iona additionally completed 2nd in 2007 & 2008). Dixon was the 1942 U.S. X-Nation Champion and the 1943 U.S. Indoor Mile Champion.
Outcomes: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1946-men.pdf
(20 groups, 147 finishers)
Gary Cohen Interview: http://www.garycohenrunning.com/Interviews/Brelsford.aspx
Race highlights (in color!): https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-video/68
1957–After three runnerup finishes the earlier decade, Notre Dame received its solely NCAA crew title, beating host Michigan State by simply 6 factors, 121-127. The person race featured many “names”. Southern Cal senior Max Truex, a 1960 Olympian(10k), was the winner, whereas Minnesota junior Leonard “Buddy” Edelen, who would change into certainly one of America’s finest marathoners, completed 4th. In fifth was Michigan State’s Crawford “forddy” Kennedy, who would win the title the next yr, and again in twentieth place was Miami College sophomore Bob Schul, who went on to win the gold medal within the 5000-meters on the 1964 Olympics.
Outcomes: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1957-men.pdf
(17 groups, 124 finishers)
Different Notable Finishers-6.Peter Shut (St.John’s), 42.Ed Moran (Penn State), 54.Cary Weisiger (North Carolina), 124.Cliff Cushman (Kansas)
Truex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Truex
Corridor of Fame Bios
Edelen: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/leonard-buddy-edelen
Schul: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/bob-schul
1967—Oregon’s Kenny Moore (30:08.8) stayed with the lead pack for many of the race earlier than unleashing his successful kick on the U.S. X-Nation Championships in Chicago. The meet was held on the identical day because the NCAA Championships (see above).
Different Notable Finishers (10k): 2.Joe Lynch (30:12.6), 3.Kerry Pearce…5.Steve Stageberg, 6.Invoice Clark…9.Eamonn O’Reilly , 10.Ron Larrieu (defender)…12.Tom Heinonen, 13.Billy Mills, 14.Tom Laris…18.Barry Brown…28.Tim Danielson
(From T&F Information)
1968–The NCAA Championships moved East for the primary time, with Manhattan Faculty serving because the host of the meet at Van Cortlandt Park. The Air Power Academy’s Mike Ryan (29:16.8), a x-country “specialist”, received the person 6-mile race over Georgetown’s Steve Stageberg (29:28) and Holy Cross’s Artwork Dulong (29:39). Ending eighth was Tom Donnelly, who led Villanova to its Third straight crew title. He and teammate Frank Murphy (forty seventh) ran on all 3 of Villanova’s successful groups. Donnelly earned his 4th NCAA title 42 years later as a coach when he led Haverford to the NCAA Div.III Males’s title in 2010.The Wildcats received on this present day with out the injured Marty Liquori.
This was the primary of three Nationwide Championships to be held at “Vanny” this fall (AAU, USTff)
Ryan, who handed away in 2014, is remembered on this tribute at As soon as Upon a Time within the Vest:
http://onceuponatimeinthevest.blogspot.com/2014/02/vol-4-no-11-passing-of-another-legend.html
Outcomes
https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1968-men.pdf
(24 groups, 217 finishers)
Different Notable Finishers: 6.Jerry Richey (Pittsburgh), 9.Sid Sink (Bowling inexperienced), 19.Frank Shorter (Yale), 22. dick Buerkle (Villanova), 25.Brian Kivlan (Manhattan), 39.Don Kardong(Stanford)
Donnelly:
http://www.haverfordathletics.com/sports activities/mtrack-out/coaches/donnelly_tom
https://www.ustfccca.org/awards/tom-donnelly-ustfccca-class-of-2014
VCP-100 Years—by Marc Bloom (2012): http://tinyurl.com/VCP100Years
1972—The setting was the U.S. X-Nation Championships in Chicago, performed in brutal circumstances (chilly, sleet, mud), and the headline in T&F Information mentioned all of it—“Cusack Runs Shorter, Shorter Runs Longer, Longer Shorter Wins”!
Irishman Neil Cusack(East Tennessee State), the winner of the NCAA title simply 5 days earlier, led the race from begin to end, however inadvertently minimize about 200-yards from the course within the final ½-mile of the 10k race. Frank Shorter, the winner of the Olympic Marathon earlier within the yr, initially adopted Cusack down the mistaken path, however back-tracked to get again on the proper course.
When officers found Cusack’s error, Shorter (30:42), who crossed the road in 2nd place, was awarded 1st place (his 3rd straight title), whereas Cusack, who had an insurmountable lead when he veered off beam, was arbitrarily positioned 4th, behind East Tennessee State teammate Ed Leddy (30:46) and Shorter’s Florida T.C. teammate Jack Bachelor (30:50). Ending a formidable 13th was Illinois prep Craig Virgin (31:13).
Different Notable Finishers: 5.John Lunn, 9.Mike Keogh, 10.Tracy Smith, 14.Carl Hatfield, 16.Sid Sink, 19.Jeff Galloway, 21. Dick Buerkle, 27.Barry Brown, 34. Glenn Herold, 42. Pete Squires, 45.Jack Fultz.
1978—After an early mis-direction by a race official on the U.S. X-Nation Championships in Seattle, leaders Greg Meyer and Alberto Salazar, not sure of how a lot distance was left within the race, had been content material to run collectively at a average tempo. That each one modified after they noticed the end line solely 200 yards away. At first, they contemplated attempting to complete in a tie, however then Salazar mentioned to Meyer, “We higher dash. One-two-three, go”! And so, the ten,000-meter race became a 50-yard sprint, with Meyer (29:36) incomes the title by a stride over Salazar (29:37), who had received the NCAA title 5 days earlier.
Different Notable Finishers: 3.Craig Virgin (29:57), 4.Don Clary, 5.Wilson Waigwa…10.Invoice Donakowski, 11.Dan Dillon…14.Bob Hodge…19.Herb Lindsay…21.Tony Sandoval…25.Thom Hunt…27.Steve Plasencia…29.Gary Bjorklund, 30.Rudy Chapa… 37.Tony Staynings…40.Ted Castaneda, 41.Don Kardong
(From T&F Information)
The Ladies’s Championship was held 2,300 miles away in Memphis, with Julie Brown (16:32.6/5k), 2nd the earlier yr, upsetting defending champion Jan Merrill (16:35.1). Brown, a scholar at Cal.State Northridge, was the 1975 World X-Nation champion.
NY Instances Protection: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/11/26/112814512.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1985–Tim Hacker’s particular person win (29:17) sparked Wisconsin to the NCAA Div.I Males’s crew title on a snow-covered course in Milwaukee, beating defending champion Arkansas, 67-104.
It was a sweep for Wisconsin, which additionally received the Ladies’s title over Iowa State, 58-98. North Carolina State’s Suzie Tuffey (16:22) was the person winner over Stanford’s Regina Jacobs (16:29).
Sports activities Illustrated Vault:
http://www.si.com/vault/1985/12/09/622648/over-hill-and-over-dale-but-not-on-a-dusty-trail
Outcomes
Males: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1985-men.pdf
(22 groups, 181 finishers)
Ladies:
https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1985-women.pdf
(16 groups, 129 finishers)
Different notable finishers
Males-2.Yobes Ondieki (Iowa State-29:29), 3.Keith Hanson (Marquette–half of the Hanson’s teaching crew), 7.Joe Falcon (Arkansas), 14.Bob Kempainen (Dartmouth), 19.Brian Abshire (Auburn), 65.Patrick Sang (Texas), 78.Doug Consiglio (Arkansas), 102.Jeff Atkinson (Stanford),
Ladies-4.Polly Plumer (UCLA) 16:31, 7.Stephanie Herbst (Wisconsin), 8.Angela Chalmers (Northern Arizona), 12.Lisa Welch (Boston College), 25.Bonnie Sons (Iowa State), 54.Tina Krebs (Clemson), 75.Vicki Huber (Villanova), 88.Cathy Schiro (Oregon), DNF-Kathy Franey (Villanova), Kathy Ormsby (North Carolina State).
Iowa State’s girls had been thrilled with their sudden 2nd-place end, however the day would finish in tragedy when certainly one of three small planes carrying the boys’s and girls’s groups house crashed in a residential neighborhood in Des Moines, killing all on board, together with coaches Ron Renko and Pat Moynihan, pilot Burton Watkins, scholar athletic coach Stephanie Streit, and runners Sue Baxter, Julie Rose and Sheryl Maahs, who had been the 3-4-5 scorers for the Cyclones.
A memorial was unveiled in 2018 outdoors the Temple B’Nai Jeshurun, which is throughout the road from the place the airplane crashed at 535 Nation Membership Blvd.
Memorial:
https://twitter.com/cyclonetrackxc/standing/1067098731441344512
https://www.runnersworld.com/information/a25381917/iowa-state-cross-country-plane-crash-memorial/
Remembering 30 Years Later
http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10700&ATCLID=210511207
https://www.fb.com/cyclonesxcw1985/?fref=ts
1989—Pat Porter received his file 8th consecutive U.S. X-Nation Males’s title in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and Lynn Jennings received the threerd of what can be her personal streak of seven wins within the Ladies’s race.
How T&F Information coated Porter’s streak
https://trackandfieldnews.com/pat-porters-8-year-xc-nationals-win-streak-revisited/
1990—One streak ended and one other continued on the U.S. X-Nation Championships, which had been held on a muddy Van Cortlandt Park (NY) course.
Pat Porter (30:35) appeared nicely on his solution to successful his 9th straight Males’s title, however Dartmouth grad Bob Kempainen (30:23) step by step caught up after which pulled away to win by 12 seconds.
Lynn Jennings (19:07/CR) had no downside successful her 4th straight Ladies’s title, ending 26 seconds forward of runnerup Shelly Steely (19:33).
Different Notable Finishers
Males(10k):3.John Nuttall, 4.Aaron Ramirez, 5.Reuben Reina, 6.Mark Coogan…9.John Scherer…12.Tim Hacker
Ladies(6k):3.Annette Peters, 4.Gina Procaccio, 5.Gwynn Coogan…12.Margaret Groos…18.Anne Marie Letko
1991–Getting a 1-2 end from Sonia O’Sullivan and Carole Zajac, Uncle Marty Stern’s Villanova crew received its Third straight NCAA Ladies’s title on a sunny and heat day in Tucson, Arizona. Villanova’s successful streak would proceed for one more 3 years!
Arkansas received its 2nd of 4 straight Males’s crew titles, getting top-10 finishes from Niall Bruton (2), Brian Baker (3), and Graham Hood (7). Western Kentucky’s Sean Dollman was the Males’s particular person winner.
Outcomes
Ladies: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1991-women.pdf
(22 groups, 179 finishers)
Males: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1991-men.pdf
(22 groups, 177 finishers)
Different notable finishers
Ladies-4.Laurie Gomez-Henes (North Carolina State–coach at her alma mater), 17.Fran ten Bensel (Nebraska), 30.Tracy Dahl (Iowa), 31.Cheri Goddard-Kenah (Villanova), 44.Deena Drossin-Kastor (Arkansas), 102.Amy Rudolph (Windfall).
Males-4.Martin Keino (Arizona), 10.Steve Holman (Georgetown), 12.Jason Pyrah (BYU), 22.David Honea (North Carolina State), 57.Greg Metcalf (Washington), 63.Andy Keith (Windfall), 65.Terrence Mahon (Villanova), 90.Jerry Schumacher (Wisconsin/coach at Oregon). Mahon and Schumacher have coached many elite runners in recent times.
1996–It was a sweep for Stanford as the boys, getting top-10 finishes from Greg Jimmerson (4th), Brad Hauser (sixth), and Jeremy White (ninth), beat defending champion Arkansas, 46-74, and the ladies, led by Monal Chokshi’s Tenth-place end, edged Villanova, 101-106. It was the primary NCAA titles for each applications and their coaches, Vin Lananna and Beth Alford-Sullivan.
Winner of the Ladies’s race was Arizona’s Amy Skieresz (17:04/5.1k), with Villanova’s Carrie Tollefson ending fifth. Tollefson would beat Skieresz to win the 1997 title. Arkansas’ Godfrey Siamusiye received the Males’s title for the 2nd yr in a row. UCLA’s Meb Keflezighi completed Tenth.
Outcomes
Ladies: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1996-women.pdf
(22 groups, 176 finishers)
Males: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1996-men.pdf
(22 groups, 173 finishers)
Different notable finishers
Ladies-21.Miesha Marzell (Georgetown), 29.Amy Yoder (Arkansas), 44.Carmen Douma (Villanova),
Males-6.Brad Hauser (Stanford), 8.Ryan Wilson (Arkansas), 10.Meb Keflezighi (UCLA), 14.Brent Hauser (Stanford), 24.Tim Broe (Alabama), 28.Seneca Lassiter (Arkansas), 32.Pascal Dobert (Wisconsin), 42.Dan Browne (Military), 46.Ryan Grote (Portland), 73.Matt Downin (Wisconsin-1995 Foot Locker champion),
2002–Following a pure development, Colorado senior Jorge Torres, Third in 2000 and 2nd in 2001, moved to the highest of the victory stand in Terre Haute, Indiana, after edging Arkansas’ Alistair Cragg for the Div.I Males’s title (29:04.7-29:06.0). Eduardo, his twin brother, completed Tenth.
Again in 194th was Texas’ Mark Floreani, the co-founder (together with his brother) of FloTrack.
A yr after struggling to a twenty second place end, North Carolina junior Shalane Flanagan (19:36) received the primary of her two NCAA girls’s titles.
Brigham Younger received its 4th girls’s crew title within the final six years, whereas Stanford received the boys’s title.
Outcomes
(31 groups, 251 finishers)
Ladies:
(31 groups, 254 finishers)
Different notable finishers
Males:7.Boaz Cheboiyo (Japanese Michigan-2001 Champion), 11.David Kimani (Alabama–1999 Champion), 12.Matt Tegenkamp (Wisconsin), 14.Daniel Lincoln (Arkansas), 15.Richard Kiplagat (Iona), 20.Jason Hartmann (Oregon), 22.Nate Brannen (Michigan), 28.Nick Willis (Michigan), 30.Ed Moran (William&Mary), 37.Ryan Corridor (Stanford), 38.Simon Bairu (Wisconsin, 2004/2005 champion), 64.Steve Slattery (Colorado), 211.Chris Lukezic (Georgetown)
Ladies:2.Kate O’Neill (Yale-19:45), 3.Alicia Craig (Stanford), 4.Lauren Fleshman (Stanford), 6.Molly Huddle (Notre Dame), 9.Megan Metcalfe (West Virginia), 12.Johanna Nilsson (Northern Arizona), 13.Laura O’Neill (Yale), 16.Christin Wurth (Arkansas), 32.Julie Culley (Rutgers), 35.Marina Muncan (Villanova), 43.Amy Mortimer (Kansas State), 58.Treniere Clement (Georgetown), 91.Erin Donohue (North Carolina), 92.Amy Hastings (Arizona State), 112.Laura Jakosky (Arkansas), 119.Shannon Rowbury (Duke), 140.Alice Schmidt (North Carolina), 150.Desiree Davila-Linden (Arizona State),
Movies
(Males): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSTrSkY5j3c
Highlights (consists of post-race interviews with Flanagan and Torres): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrdQU8IxUsM
Historic Hyperlinks
Div.I Ladies Males T&F Information Archives USTFCCA
Div.II http://www.ustfccca.org/meets-results/meet-history?sequence=3370
Div.III Kirk Reynolds Archives
NAIA Previous Winners: https://www.naia.org/sports activities/wxc/2024-25/Information/program
Outcomes from 2009 to 2023–Males Ladies
Nice Pictorial Historical past of the NCAA Div.I Championships(Males)
