Oregon’s runners, the only ones to wear spikes on the slippery, leaf-covered course at Oregon State which also involved some hard-surfaced areas, got 5 of the first 6 places and a surprisingly easy victory over highly-regarded Washington State, 19–44.įreshman Prefontaine went ahead early on the grass, watched Gerry Lindgren burn by and build a 60y lead on the second and third miles of asphalt, then gained it all back-pIus 150y-as they got back on grass and Lindgren found the going too treacherous. And for his first-ever 6M, Steve Prefontaine did the same. … Pacific Coast: For a team giving little emphasis to cross country and running its first meet of the year, Oregon made quite a showing in the Northern Division (of the Pac-8) race. November 1969: XC Roundup November 1969: In the first of what would be 5 front-page appearances, Pre was captured winning the Pac-8’s Northern Division XC race. We have taken the liberty of doing some stylistic updatings to mirror our modern protocol and also added an editorial comment or three: HERE, IN THE SECOND of a long multi-part series, is how we reported the career of Steve Prefontaine in our pages from the fall of ’69 through the summer of ’70, with the same photographs we used at the time.
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