Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Cross Country 1943
Coach Bill Eddy
lettermen Jim Harding & Harry Meister
also Jim Gere and V-12 trainee Peter Meyers from VPI
2 Oct WPI
9 Oct @Union
16 Oct Coast ?Guard
6 Nov Union
13 Nov @Colgate
24 September 1943, Time trial
1 Jim Harding 25:21
2 Harry Meister
3 Jim Gere
4 Pete Meyers under 26 minues
5 Flomenhoft
6 Calvin
7 Neacy
8 Schmitt
9 O'Connor
10 Hamilton
11 Huber
12 McGraw
13 Leff
14 Behret
2 October 1943, RPI 16, WPI 44 @RPI, 4.6 miles
1 Jim Gere RPI 24:58.5
2 Jim Harding RPI 25:58.6
3 Harry Meister RPI 25:58.6
4 Calvin RPI 25:58.6
5 Linnekin RPI 26:40 (did not figure in scoring)
6 Gault WPI 26:49.3
7 Meyers RPI 26:57.2 slowed by pain in side
8 Flomenhoft RPI 27:01
9 Lacedonia WPI 27:02.2
10 Staples WPI 27:05
11 Chase WPI 27:05
12 Neacy RPI 27:14
13 Howard RPI 27:22
14 Hamilton RPI 27:37
15 Holby WPI 27:47
16 White WPI 27:52
17 Schmidt RPI 27:55
18 Bahret RPI 28:42
19 O'Conner RPI 29:01
20 Hunt WPI 29:57
Race started during the second quarter of the WPI game and finished in front of the grandstand. Conducted under NCAA rules where seven men on each time were nominated to be scoring runners.
9 October 1943, RPI 25, Union 30, @Schenectady, 7 miles
much of the course through fields and over rough roads with poor footing
1 Art Highland U 27:02.5
2 Gere RPI 27:21
3 Jules Viglielmo U 27:42
4 Bob Calvin RPI 27:51
5 Jim Harding RPI 28:10
6 Flomenhoft RPI 28:27
7 Don Brightman U 28:49
8 Linnekin RPI 28:49.5
9 Howard RPI 29:27
10 Neacy RPI 29:34
11 Herman Bloom U 29:51
12 Roy Breg U 29:58
13 Blaine Butler U 30:00
14 Schmidt RPI 30:16
15 Hamilton RPI 31:07
16 Harry Meister RPI 31:16 slowed by shin splints
17 Huber RPI 31:16
18 O'Connor RPI 31:36
19 Maurel U 32:30
Scored under ICAAAA rules (no displacement).
16 October 1943, RPI 15, Coast Guard 50 @RPI
1 Jim Gere RPI 26:04.7
2 Jim Harding RPI 25:54.0
3 Calvin RPI
4 Myers RPI
5 Linnekin RPI
6 Flomenhoft RPI
7 Howard RPI
6 November 1943, RPI 22, Union 33 @Troy
1 Jim Gere RPI 24:33.0
2 Art Highland U 24:33.1
3 Jim Harding RPI 24:52.2
4 Jules Viglielmo U 25:07.1
5 Myers RPI 25:45.6
6 Calvin RPI 26:10.9
7 Howard RPI 26:20.8
8 Don Brightman U 26:25.2
9 Roy Breg U 26:33.2
10 Linnekin RPI 26:38.0
11 Herman Bloom U 27:18.5
12 Flomenhoft RPI 27:23
13 Hamilton RPI 27:25
14 Huber RPI 27:29
15 Schmitt RPI 27:47
16 Ralph Krueger U 27:55
17 O'Connor RPI 28:37
18 Blaine Butler U 28:59
RPI 22, Colgate 33 @Colgate, 4 1/4 miles
snow began falling just after the start
=1 Gere & Harding RPI 21:40.3
3 Bruno C
4 Pete Myers RPI
5 Luciano C
6 Thompson C
7 Calvin RPI
8 Linnekin RPI
9 Howard RPI
also Schmitt, Hamilton, O'Connor, & Huber
RPI finished the season 5-0.