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I But perhaps the greatest boon to the team was the fact
that the boys running behind Frank were so closely
bunched that their order of finish changed with every
meet. Thus the team had a hard core of five highly com­
petitive runners, Dennis Boggs, Mark Warburton, Chip
Lumb, Tom Gross, and Roger Bennett, who were always
pushing each other on to better times.

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Right at the start of the season, the Quakers demon­
strated their power by trouncing North Providence and
Pawtucket West. The following week, however, St.
Raphael’s knocked our runners down a peg and destroyed
our chances for a Class B title. After that upset, our forces
were not to be stopped until one fateful day at Woon­
socket. There our runners doggedly jumped off cliffs,
sloshed over streams, and trudged through beach sand only
to suffer a loss at the hands of a team that we had already
soundly whipped on Columbus Day. In prep competition
we proved that last year’s defeat of Worcester by one
point was not a fluke. Against Governor Dummer we took
seven of the first eight places. Overall, Moses Brown’s
fine season demonstrated that we arQ a real power in
track.
In the various Class, State, and New England Champion­
ships in which the harriers participated, were many very
fine teams. The Moses Brown runners should be com­
mended for their exceptional showings in each one. Even
though we dropped from second to third in the Class B
Championships we jumped from ninth to sixth in the
Doc calls the shots State Meet.
The outlook for next year is very good with Roger
Bennett, Chip Lumb, and Douggie Smith returning to form
a solid nucleus with which Dr. Odell can mold another
fine team.