1955 INVITATIONAL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY MEET

by Keith Conning, Pleasanton, CA
e-mail: keithconning@aol.com

If you know what these athletes have done since December 3, 1955, please e-mail me. I would like to know of significant running accomplishments and what kind of work they did for their career. I entered Abraham Lincoln High School, San Francisco in February 1956. I ran my first cross country race in Golden Gate Park in September 1956. I would like to thank Hank Lawson (Lynbrook High School, CCS) for sending these results to me. He has been helped by Plato Yanicks, the former long-time coach at Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, California.

Ron Larrieu (Palo Alto) won the 1.95 mile cross country race on the Stanford Golf Course in 10:12.

Palo Alto won the team title with 38 points. Ron is the brother of Francie Larrieu.

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NorCal Finals - 12/03/55



(CORRECTED)
OFFICIAL RESULTS OF THE 1955
INVITATIONAL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY MEET

Date: December 3, 1955 11:30 AM Location: Stanford Golf Course
Distance: 1.95 miles Weather: Scattered showers, 51 F
Course Record: 10:10.4 Surface: Slow and spongy from
Ron Larrieu, Palo Alto, Nov. 4, 1954 previous rains

TEAM SCORES: 1st: PALO ALTO: 1,5,6,12,14 38 pts
2nd: WASHINGTON 4,9,15,16,29 73 pts
3rd: LOWELL 3,10,11, 23, 27 74 pts
4th: EL CAMINO 8,20,25,33,35 121 pts
5th CARLMONT 2,26,31,38,43 140 pts
6th PLACER 17,21,30,32,47 147 pts
7th FRESNO 7,13,37,44,48 149 pts
8th: MERCED 22,24,34,39,41 160 pts

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS: (After reviewing motion pictures)
1. Ron Larrieu Palo Alto 10:12 (in pencil in margin) 4:20.1
2. Tom Jont Carlmont 10:16 3:15.5
3. Edgar Chavez Lowell 10:17 4:30.0
4. Miles Eisenman Tehachapi 10:17 3:17.0
5. Daryll Beardall Santa Rosa 10:17 4:38.7
6. Bob Hammond Washington 10:21 4:23.8
7. Tom Cathcart Palo Alto 10:21 4:25.2
8. John Morrison Palo Alto 10:26 4:28.3
9. Bingo Ormo Fremont 10:28
10. Bill James El Camino 10:30 4:31.0
11. James Thomas Washington 10:36
12. Robert Young Lowell 10:37
13. Tom Alexander Norte Del Rio 10:38
14. Bill Morgan Lowell 10:37
15. Donal Brown Palo Alto 10:40
16. Bob Templeton Fremont 10:40
17. Bill Whitson Palo Alto 10:40 4:35.2
18. Roger Pickens Washington 10:47
19. Dave Foldman Washington 10.47
20. Aaron Knight Placer 10:48
21. Steve Johnson Palo Alto 10:49
22. John Northway Palo Alto 10:49
23. Dick Murrill El Camino 10:50
24. Jack Brinor Placer 10:50
25. Tom Brown Merced 10:54 1:54.4
26. Leo Martinez Lowell 10:55
27. Wayne Smith Merced 10:55
28. Phil Cordero El Camino 10:55
29. Steve Potty Carlmont 10:55
30. Horace Wheatley Lowell 10:55
31. Burnett Ross Lowell 10:55
32. Ulester Countz Washington 10:55
33. Jose Ramirez Placer 11:01
34. Don Ziphel Carlmont 11:04
35. Dave Holt Placer 11:05
36. Joe Harrod El Camino 11:06
37. John Smith Merced 11:08
38. Ralph Reiche El Camino 11:09
39. Larry Rockham El Camino 11:09
40. Mike Harding Fremont 11:10
41. Jim Reams Carlmont 11:11
42. Mike Moloney Merced 11:15
43. Dick Guggenhiem Lowell 11:25
44. Gerald Wiggins Merced 11:33
45, Mike Crowley Merced 11:34
46. Bill Klose Carlmont 11:34
47. Mike Buckelew Fresno 11:38
48. Milke Collins El Camino 11:41
49. Fred Gonzales Washington 11:43
50. Jerry Minier Placer 11:44
51. Jeff Beaubier Fresno 11:54
52. Rodney Mead Placer 11:57
53. Anthony Roan Merced 11:59
54. Doug Towne Carlmont 12:01
55. Avi Shepherd Washington 12:12

Motion pictures picked up three errors, there may have been others but it would not have justified changing original placements on the basis of what we could see. The first errors was the Templeton of Fresno who was listed seventeenth when he actually placed sixteenth. We had Aaron Knight of Placer placed ahead of two Washington High men, Pickens and Feldman. The review gave Pickens eighteenth, Feldman nineteenth, and Knight twentieth.

TEAM SCORES:
1. Palo Alto 1,5,6,12,14 = 38
2. Washington 4,9,15,16,29 = 73
3. Lowell 3,10,11,23,27, = 74
4. El Camino 8,20,25,33,35 = 121
5. Carlmont 2,26,31,38,43 = 140
6. Placer 17,21,30,32,47,= 147
7. Fresno 7,13,37,44,48, = 149
8. Merced 22,24,34,39,41 = 160

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