Amherst Cross Country 1939
Coach Lumley
Captains Hank Prickitt '41 and Bill Wise '40
Manager Bud Crawford
Wise lost for the season.
Freshmen p117
Coach Lumley
Asst Coach EJ Lawton Jr
Captain Sam Cobb
Holmes, Samuel Kitchell, Smith, Alexis Nason, William Whiston, Louis Hirsch, William Agnew, John Ashbaugh, Richard Valentine
20 October 1939, Coast Guard 19, Amherst 39 @New London
1 McGrady CG cr
2 Prickitt A
21 October 1939, Mt Hermon 15, Amherst Freshmen 40 @Amherst
Cobb lost to injury
?23 October 1939, Springfield 20, Amherst 35 @Amherst
newly lengthened course
1 Ned Badrow Sp 24:21 cr
2 Prickitt A
3 Taylor Sp
4 Lysak Sp
5 Morton Sp
7 Danny Riva Sp
28 October 1939, Tufts 17, Amherst 49 @Medford
7 November 1939, Connecticut Valley @Springfield
Conn St, Mass St, Wesleyan, Springfield, Trinity, Amherst
1 Holmes Ws
5 Prickitt A
42 finishers
Freshmen
4 Amherst
1 Ferguson Ws
2 Cobb A
10 November 1939, Trinity 20, Amherst 35 @Amherst, 4 1/4 miles
1 Hank Prickitt A 24:13.4 cr
2 Ed Rosen Tr
3 Jim Caffrey Tr
4 Bob Smellie Tr
5 Steve Riley Tr
6 Ed Charles Tr
7 James Tobey A
8 Halley Seller A
9 Bennett Tr
11 Elrick Tr
12 George Buck A
Amherst Freshmen 17, Trinity 38
1 Cobb A 16:16.2 cr
=2 Ashbaugh & Valentine A
5 Nason A
17 November, Little Three @Williamstown
Williams 33, Wesleyan 34, Amherst 53
1 Johnny Holmes Ws 24:25
2 Cpt Em Guernsey Ws
3 Cpt Hank Prickitt A
4 Brew Chapman So Wm
9 James Tobey A
12 Halley Seller A
14 Handyside A
15 Evans Valens A
Wesleyan Freshmen, Williams, Amherst
1 Cobb A cr
Letters: Prickitt, Leonard Leary '40, Donald Wedel '40, Thomas Palmer '41, Halley Donald Seller '41, James Tobey '41, Frederic Eastman '42, George Hill '42