“If we beat Laney it’ll take a real team effort,” says Coach Don Vick, head slave-driver of the De Anza Cross country team. Coach Vick was referring to tomorrow’s meet with Laney College and Gavilan Colelge, at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland at 10 a.m.

His remark was based on the fact that Laney beat an always tough West Valley College squad, by placing a man in each of the first three places. The Laney man who came across the finish line first, according to Coach Vick, ran the very tough 3.5 mile course in eighteen minutes flat.

VICK HAS GOOD reason to count on his seven man team of runners, for, although they lost their first meet at Lexington Reservoir against a seasoned San Jose City College team by a score of 17 to 47, they came back last Tuesday afternoon with a “real rip-snorter.” Coach Vick’s “rip-snorter” was in the form of a double win in a dual meet with Monterey Peninsula College and Menlo college. The win over Menlo came fairly easy for the Dons for, although Menlo did run in the meet, they ran only three men, and it takes at least five men to constitute a team.

THE DON’S WIN over well-coached Monterey’s man lead the race for well over the first sis-hundred and sixty yards, btu after that the Dons calmly passed him and put four men in front of the lone Monterey runner for the remainder of the race.

Contributing greatly to the De Anza wins over Monterey and Menlo were Steve Fagundes, who was out with a slight injury for the San Jose meet, and Art Rodriguez, who ran neck and neck all the way and tied across the finish line for first and second place points. Dan Horan and Kim Crumb, both formerly Cupertino High’s ace foot-racers, placed third and fourth respectively in the Monterey-Menlo meet. They rank high along with their teammates in Coach Don Vick’s hopes for the future.

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