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Duke Captures ACC Track,
Terp Reign Ends, Cavs Sixth

By Mike DeCamps
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

All Four Rugby Sides Return To Charlottesville This Weekend For Openings Weekend Tilts

Main Attraction Begins At 2 P.M. Sunday With The "A" Side Facing Penn State On Nameless Field

Duke's cross-country squad
finally got around to proving
Monday what most conference
coaches and runners had-suspected

all year when the Blue Devils ended
Maryland's eight year reign as
conference cross-country champs.

The Blue Devil squad, that had
lost to Maryland in a dual meet but
seventeen for a winning total of
forty-two points.

Maryland, with two of its top
stars out, was pushed all the way
back to fourth behind North
Carolina and North Carolina State.
The Tar Heels had sixty-six points,
while State with two of the top
three finishers, had seventy-one.

Virginia's Cavaliers were nipped
by Clemson and finished in sixth
place. South Carolina and Wake
Forest were seventh and eighth
respectively. The meet, run over
Carolina's five-mile course, was
mass confusion with the course
being poorly marked and there
being hardly enough officials.

Duke's freshman standout, Bob
Wheeler, as he has done all year,
had to find his way around the
course by himself, running in front
the whole way. His 24:48 time was
two seconds off the course record
held by former Duke star Ed
Stenburg.

State scored strong with Gareth
Hayes and Jim Wilkens in second
and third place respectively, but
hardly challenging Wheeler.
Carolina's Larry Wigeon was fourth
just ahead of Duke's Mike Graves
and Roger Beardmore.

Phil Meyer was Virginia's first
harrier to finish, coming in
fifteenth - the last trophy winning
place. But the Cavaliers, who had a
lot of runners finish close together,
could not overcome Clemson
because they did not have another
front runner.

The sixth place finish was a drop
from last year's fourth place, but
overall the conference was much
stronger this year than last. The
distance work should prove quite
helpful to the Virginia track team
this winter and spring.