rojo wrote:
isaac7 wrote:https://journal.tracksmith.com/here-comes-columbiawell worth the read.
Also, I can't find a video of the race anywhere online....someone help
I haven't had time to read the article yet. Do they have mention the win should come with an asterisk*? ;)
If Michigan hadn't been manly and run the DMR, 4 x mile and 4 x 800, they probably would have won the 4 x 800. Michigan's anchor (Ellerton) had already run the DMR the day before and mile the same day. Columbia forfeitted the 1st two races.
Also wasn't this race that resulted in the Penn Relays directors determining that if the COA 4 x 800 wasn't won in under 7:20, that winner's watches wouldn't be handed out.
Sincerely,
A Princeton alum.
PS. In actuality, I was coaching at Cornell at the time and I remember watching this race and seeing it totally bunched up with 200 to go and thinking, "Come on anyone but Columbia. When they won, I was like, 'you've got to be kidding.' LBP is clutch."
Weldon was there and turned to me and mocked me like only a big brother could do and said, "They just did what you dreamed of."
Yes indeed.
In reality, we had a fairly friendly rivalry. I'd score every heps trrack meet separately 800 on up and kept track of who was doing the best job in the mid-d only and also in mid-d and distance.
Here is arguably my proudest stat at Cornell.
Mid-d and Distance Points 2005-2009
Cornell - 449
Princeton - 363
Columbia - 313
The key is to any stat is of course to cherry pick the years so you look the best as shown below.
Mid-d at Heps 2005-2010
Cornell 298
Columba 291
Boom Cornell #1. But if you go 2005-2011, then Columbia gets the edge.
Columbia 333-Cornell 330
Unfortunately, my appeal to the Heps rules committee to get either of those stats traded in for one Heps xc title was denied.
In actuality, most of the time Columbia did well it helped us keep our track dynasty going. We pretty much won Ivy League title in track every year except if Princeton was crazy good in the distances (which didn't really happen until they got Cabral and Leung and Co. The 2011 Princeton team was unreal. They scored 159 mid-d/distance points at heps that year indoors and out which is a crazy number).