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