Bowdoin Cross Country 1916
A wooden bridge spanning a brook at the foot of Standpipe Hill on the cross-country course was washed away in the spring and the harriers have been unable to get up the hill so nearly half the course has been cut off. Track management is planning to build a new bridge.
A dual meet with Colby staged so the finish will come between the halves of the Colby-Bowdoin football game have been arranged. Letters will be awarded if Bowdoin wins. No race with Wesleyan this year.
12 Oct Handicap XC race
21 Oct vs Colby @Brunswick
3 Nov Maine intercollegiate XC @Lewiston
10 Nov NEICAA XC @Boston
The captain and coach report a great lack of men for the cross-country
team and the fall track meet.
The bridge on the cross-country course has been rebuilt.
--Bowdoin Orient, 10 October 1916
21 Oct 1916, Bowdoin 23, Colby 32 @Brunswick
course very wet and muddy
1 "Pink" Noyes B 30:53
2 Cpt MR Thompson C 31:22
3 RA Thompson C 32:01
4 Cleaves B 32:35
5 Fillmore B 33:04
6 Mosher B 33:12
7 Crane B 33:25
8 Anderson C 34:08
9 Merrill C 34:25
10 Everts C 34:33
11 Maddocks C 34:36
12 Tooker C 35:13
13 Hildreth B 36:45
14 Smith B 38:15
The runners began to appear while the ball was still in action during
the first half of the football game.
Bowdoin Orient, 31 October 1916
last Thursday, Bowdoin Freshmen 24, Hebron Academy 31, @Brunswick
1 RE Brown B
2 RE Cleaves B
3 AE Tondreau H
4 DC Noyes B
5 BH Stevens H
6 Edward Leclaire H
7 Howard Hodgkins H
8 MH Smith B
9 CR Harris B
10 Harold Baldwin H
No times given out as a small bridge at Standpipe Hill was washed away.
The freshmen XC team has been invited to a cross-country race at Dartmouth along with Harvard, Princeton, Brown, and Yale.
Star cross-country man Brown '20 is ineligibe for the Maine XC meet through
the one year rule.
--Bowdoin Orient, 7 November 1916
10 November 1916, Maine State Cross Country, Garcelon Field
1 Maine 24
2 Bates 46
3 Bowdoin 62
4 Colby 90
1 CA Herrick ME 28:15
10 Cleaves Bo 29:35
12 Crane Bo 20:24
14 Fillmore Bo 30:41
20 Musher Bo 31:27
25 O'Donnell Bo 35:37
26 Smith Bo 36:00
Bowdoin Orient, 21 November 1916
Dartmouth Freshmen Intercollegiate XC run, Franklin Park
race moved because of the snow at Hanover
1 Yale 39
2 Dartmouth 49
3 U Penn 52
4 Bowdoin 84
1 Gorton D 22:53
2 Carter D 23:05
3 Shields P 23:18.2
4 Noyes B 23:24
5 Bronson Y 23:31.4
6 Dudley Y 23:33
7 Reed Y 23:41
8 Cummings P 23:43.4
9 Crathern D 23:50.4
10 McTernan Y 23:56
11 Talbot Y 24:05
12 Eby P 24:05
13 Peck P 24:09
14 Miner Y 24:15
15 Cleaves B 24:15.2
16 Sommes P 24:43
17 Brown B 24:49
18 Granger D 24:50.6
19 Whittaker D 24:50.8
20 Driscoll Y 24:53
21 Whitman P 25:43
22 Frazier D 26:00.6
23 Harris B 26:18
24 Harris P 26:45.2
25 Smith B 30:50
Bowdoin officially "broke training" after the Maine XC meet.