After that, the team beat a poor Yale team, 19-44, before losing to Princeton, a team it had soundly trounced the year before, 28-29.

While those performances--particularly the Princeton loss--were, disappointing, they paled in comparison to the Heptagonals performance October 29.

Heptagonals is traditionally considered to be the biggest team meet of the season for the Crimson. It features all eight of the Ivy League teams plus Navy, and is seen as the equivalent of a league championship meet.

Harvard went into this year's meet as it did the entire season--with high hopes--and came out of the experience like a movie audience that has just seen Ishtar. Rather than garnering the upset win over Cornell it had dreamed of, it ended up with a seventh-place finish, it lowest in five years.

"That was so disappointing," Griffin says. "It was the biggest meet of the year, and we put forth our worst performance. That really hurt."

Two weekends later, the Crimson finished up its season with a 16th place finish out of 28 teams at Easterns, a disappointing end to a disappointing season.

"It was rough and it was hard, but I guess we can take consolation in the fact that stayed together through it all," Griffin says. "We didn't get down on each other, we continually supported each other throughout the year, and that's what's really important. That fact can only help the team in the future."

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNRTY

Record: 25-8

Ivy League: 2-2

Key Players: Karen Goetze, Meredith Fitzgerald, Kelly Benke

Seniors: Megan Fritschel, Alais Griffin, Kathleen McGovern