Cross-country is rooted in the ‘paper chase’ race – or ‘hare and hounds’ race – of the early 19 th century. In these races, a group of runners, known as ‘hares’, would run off and ...

With a heavily handicapped dark horse installed as the favorite, the University cross country handicap will be run this afternoon over a grueling three and a half mile course. Despite the return ...

When our team couldn’t make it through 500 pushups, my cross country coach would laugh. And he meant every word of it. I used to run cross country in high school, not because I particularly ...