douglas burke wrote:
Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter, Steve Scott.
I can't vouch for him setting a course record in every meet, but I do know he won the New England Championships as a senior.
This from an old article:
"It was at the private Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts, that he ran his first “Pie Race,” an annual 4.55-mile road race where men who finished under 33 minutes, and women who finished under forty, got an apple pie. In a field of runners mostly older and better trained, he finished seventh, picking off people in the second half of the race and discovering that he had speed in addition to endurance. In the fall of 1964—his final year at Mount Hermon—he was undefeated in cross-country, and broke every record on the courses he ran, winning the New England Championships as well as the Pie Race. He quit the ski team and in the Spring track season set a school record in the two-mile run while continuing his unbeaten streak. "
Shorter was a star from the jump off. Was there a bigger distance race for HSers than the New Englands at that time?
Maybe Golden West or the Keebler/Elmhurst 2mile? But I don't know when those got started, they probably did not have a top-flight 2mile yet.