Bates 1929
Bates Cross Country 1929
Coach Ray Thompson
Captain Charles Cushing
Furtwengler not yet returned to school
Hobbs, Chapman, Viles, and Jones returning letterman
Cole and Whitten only runners returning from freshmen team
also Hayes, Buddington, Lind, and Miller (star snowshoe racer)
12 Oct @Springfield
26 Oct Northeastern
1 Nov Maine
Freshmen
4 Oct Pennell Institute
16 Oct Lisbon HS (from 9Oct report)
23 Oct Bridgton Academy
4 October 1929, Bates Freshmen 22, Pennell Institute 35 @Lewiston, 2 3/4 miles
course shortened for benefit of the Pennell team
1 Corydon Jordan Ba 13:34
2 Sawyer P
3 Adams Ba
4 Hancock P
5 Hardcastle Ba
6 Carpenter Ba
7 Lary Ba
8 McPherson P
9 Gilford Ba
10 Harmon P
11 Maguire P
8 October 1929, Time trail @Lewiston
1 Cpt Cushing
2 Hayes
3 Chapman
4 Whitten
5 Viles
6 Jones
7 Hobbs
plus four others
the leaders did not exert themselves unduly
12 October 1929, Bates 22, Springfield 35 @Springfield
1 Bennett S 29:09
2 Viles Ba 29:15
3 Whitten Ba
4 Cushing Ba
5 Mitchell S
6 Jones Ba
7 Brown S
8 Hobbs Ba
9 Hayes Ba
10 Babcock S
11 Chapman Ba
12 Bowen S
13 Watts S
14 Fielding S
16 October 1929, Bates Freshmen 18, Lisbon HS 37, 3 miles
1 Cory Jordan Ba 15:35
2 Adams Ba 16:35
3 Harold Ricker L 16:40
4 Carpenter Ba 16:45
5 Lary Ba
6 Hardcastle Ba
7 White L
8 Al Coombs L
9 Dean L
10 Smolak L
Other Bates runners finished before Lisbon's scoring five, but were not counted.
Lisbon coach is Arthur Brown, Bates '27.
Lewiston Daily Sun, 26 October 1929, p13
Bates-Northeastern meet today to finish with a lap of Garcelon Field between halves of the Bates-Maine football game
Hobbs formerly ran for New Hampshire St
Springfield defeated Dartmouth after losing to Bates
26 October 1929, Bates 20, Northeastern 38 @Lewiston
1 Russell Jellison NE 27:42
2 Whitten Ba 27:42.2
3 Hobbs Ba
4 Viles Ba
5 Cushing Ba
6 Hayes Ba
7 Bernard Sheridan NE
8 Edward Fischer NE
9 Chapman Ba
10 Elliot NE
11 Cole Ba
12 Bradford NE
26 October 1929, Bates Freshmen 20, Brunswick HS 38 @Lewiston
1 Corydon Jordan Ba 15:52.4
2 Adams Ba 17:12
3 Burbank Br 17:18
4 Lary Ba
5 Saunders Br
6 Hardcastle Ba
7 Carpenter Ba
8 Freeman Ba
9 Davis Br
10 Fields Br
11 Goodwin Br
Lewiston Daily Sun, 31 October 1929, p11
Maine favored over Bates, no previous meets, will also run NEICAA
Harry Richardson and Bud Lindsay still leading the team
Gunning, Brooks, Stanley, Fuller, and Austin running well
1 November 1929, Maine State XC, Lewiston, 5 miles
Bates 25, Maine 36
=1 Richardson Me 27:03
=1 Lindsay Me
3 Wendall Hayes Ba 27:49
=4 Wallace Viles Jr Ba 27:52
=4 Ellsworth Hobbs Ba
=4 Charles Cushing Sr Ba
=4 Norm Whitten So Ba
=8 Russell Chapman Jr Ba 28:26
=8 Stuart Jones Jr Ba
Lewiston Daily Sun, 16 November 1929, p14
Bates, Maine, and New Hampshire rated joint favorites for New Englands
14 varsity and 7 freshmen teams entered
Everett Gunning of Maine will run
Harry Booth and Madison Haskell will lead Maine freshmen
18 November 1929, NEICAA @Franklin Park, 5 miles (new course)
steady downpour and gusty winds
Bates 30, Maine 52, MIT 107, 11 teams
1 Francis C Lindsey Sr Me 27:35.6
2 Harry L Richardson Sr Me 27:35.6
3 Harry A Hazen NH 28:12.4
4 Norman Whitten Ba 28:18
5 Wallace Viles Ba 28:28
6 Ellsworth Hobbs Ba 28:44
7 Charles Cushing Ba 28:48
8 Wendell Hayes Ba 28:48.2
11 Stuart Jones Ba 29:00
17 Russell Chapman Ba 29:27
76 starters
Freshmen, 3 miles
New Hampshire 57, Bates 67, MIT 73, 7 teams
1 Corydon Jordan Ba 17:08.2
2 E.T. Cummings Tu 17:22
3 David Demoulpied NH 17:22.2
4 Madison B. Haskell Me 17:43
5 Harry E. Booth Me 17:58
Lewiston Daily Sun, 20 November 1929, p10
Bates to run at ICAAAA in New York on Monday
Lewiston Daily Sun, 22 November 1929, p12
Penn, Penn State, and Cornell favorites for ICAAAA
Lewiston Daily Sun, 26 November 1929, p10
25 November 1929, ICAAAA@Van Cortlandt Park, 6 miles
Penn 52, Michigan St 81, Bates 97, Syracuse 114, Maine 141, 19 teams
=1 Lindsay & Richardson Me 30:06
3 Lauren D Brown MI St 30:25
4 Clark S Chamberlain MI St 30:33
5 Joseph W Hagen Columbia 30:35
9 Wallace E Viles Ba 30:48
14 Norm E Whitton Ba 31:07
19 Everett A Gunning Me 31:25
20 Ellsworth H Hobbs Ba 31:27
22 Charles G Cushing Ba 31:29
33 Russell H Chapman Ba 31:49
41 Stuart W Jones Ba 32:11
112 Wendell L Hayes Ba 34:25
132 finishers