Hall of Fame
The 1964 Men's Cross Country team will be one of the first teams inducted into the Hall of Fame. The 1964 Men's Cross Country team was the first team in school history to bring home NCAA hardware. The Bulldogs had an impressive regular season, winning six of seven dual meets. The team finished second in the Southwest Missouri State Invitational meet and were conference champions with five Bulldogs placing in the top eight, including MIAA overall champion, senior Ed Schneider. At the national meet, held in Wheaton, Ill. Schneider won the individual national championship in the college division race with a time of 19:43.9. The Bulldogs finished with 105 points and claimed second place in the meet, trailing champion, Kentucky State College, by just 10 points. Truman was 59 points ahead of third place State College of Iowa (Iowa State). Schneider was the lone senior letterwinner on the squad and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1986, he retired from coaching the Bulldogs in December of 2005. The other letterwinners of the squad were freshman Ronald Werling, sophomores Robert Frost, Craig Guinn and Gerald Kusek and junior Terry McDonald. Weling was also inducted into the Hall as an individual in 1996. Along with Schneider, Werling is the only other Bulldog cross country runner to earn all-America honors three times. The squad was directed by Dr. George Hermann and assisted by Tom Sonster.
