Holy Cross Athletics

Art Dulong was one of the greatest distance runners in both Holy Cross and New England history.

Dulong consistently won at distances from the half mile to the six mile. He won the New England cross coun-try championship twice, the IC4A crown twice and held the meet record at both events. Dulong was a New England indoor champion in the mile and two-mile uruns and outdoor champion in the mile and three mile runs and the 3,000-meter steeplechase. At the 1969 New England Championship, he won and set records in both the mile and three mile with a rest of just about an hour in between.

Dulong held nine individual Holy Cross records at the time of his graduation, four indoors and five outdoors. The indoor records were: 1,500 (3:46.5), mile (4:01.1, winning at the BAA games at the Boston Garden), two-mile (8:33.2) and a three-mile (13:19.2). The outdoor records were: mile (4:04.1), two-mile (8:53), three-mile (13.44.6), six-mile (28:56) and 3,000-meter steeplechase (9:00.02).

He also held numerous meet and Fitton Field records, lost just once in four years of dual meet competition, won the national AAU indoor three-mile championship, twice was the national AAU 20-kilometer champion and was an NCAA All-American.

Dulong ran in the majority of the big indoor meets in the country and represented the U.S. in meets in Russia, Germany and Brazil.  He capped his brilliant collegiate career by being selected as the 1970 Crusader of the Year.  He also received one of only two NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarships awarded to track athletes that year.