Bowdoin Cross Country 1917
Coach Magee
Manager Mahoney
The cross country men will start work this week. Robert Cleaves '20 is only veteran of last year's team in College this fall.
Candidates include:
Blanchard, Wyman '18
Foulke, Johnson, Knight, Sturgis, Sullivan, Tibbets '19
Avery, Brown, Cutler, Dunbar '20
Haines, Lovell, CB Morse '21
5 October, Cross Country Trial
rain fell during most of the afternoon leaving the course slippery
1 Cleaves
2 Wyman
3 Blanchard
4 Morse
5 Warren '20
6 McCarty '19
7 Lovell
8 Knight
9 Avery
10 Johnson
11 Atwood '21
19 October, 2nd trial
1 Goodwin '21 ran for Wakefield (MA) HS
2 Cleaves '20
3 Blanchard
4 Wyman
5 McCarthy '19
6 Warren
7 Morse
8 Knight
9 Avery
10 Johnson
23 October 1917, Bowdoin 23, New Hampshire St 34, Durham, 4 1/4 miles
pouring rain
1 GC Nightingale NH 26:40.8
2 Goodwin Bo 27:00
3 Cleaves Bo 28:18
4 Wyman Bo 28:19
5 Blanchard Bo 28:22
6 Weston NH 28:44
7 Fitch NH 29:03
8 O'Leary NH 29:15
9 McCarthy Bo 29:24
10 Morse Bo
11 Warren Bo
12 Dove NH
13 B Nightingale NH
14 Billingham NH
The cross country team will not race Tufts, but negotiations with Dartmouth are on-going. The Maine race will likely not be held, but the New Englands are scheduled for Boston on 17 November.
--Bowdoin Orient, 6 November 1917
Frank Noyes '17 commissioned 2nd Lt of Cavalry. CH Crosby '17 is an Ensign on flagship Aztec, USNRF.
--Bowdoin Orient, 20 Novmber 1917
17 November 1917, NEICAA, Franklin Park
MIT 32, Bowdoin 40, Williams 66, Tufts 105, Boston College inc
1 G Goodwin Bo 29:08
2 GF Halfacre MIT two minutes behind
3 R Cleaves Bo
7 HW Blanchard Bo
8 LC Wyman Bo
21 F Warren Bo