The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-18
Many TEAMS AT
CONFERENCE MEET

Minneapolis, April 1s.--one hundred
and thirty schools and colleges have
been invited to attend the track meet
Of the intercollegiate Conference Ath-
letic association, known popularity as
In Western Conference, to be held on
Northrop field of the University of
Minnesota June 2 and 3. These insti-
tutions are in the middle and far west,
covering a territory from Ohio to Cali
fornia and Oregon and from Minnesota
and North Dakota to Louisiana
The meet to be held on Northrop
field Is the eleventh annual meet OF the
conference and the first to be held at
Minnesota The 1910 meet was held at
Champaign on the Illinois field. Thirty
three colleges Were entered and the
total number of competing men ran
over 400. At the time of the 1910
meet 1t was announced that NOtre
Dame had won first place, but that
result has been corrected so that
Notre Dame and Leland Stanford tied
for first This meet was the first In
which a non-conference team won
first place. Each conference team will
make an effort in the 1911 meet b
win back the title.
As the intercollegiate conference was
formed to make sports cleaner and put
intercollegiate athletics on a sounder
basis, the guests of the conference are
asked to live up to conference eligi-
biiity rules. These rules eliminate
freshmen and men who have already
competed three years, or have a. COL
lege degree. Each athlete must be free
from conditions or fiunks and must
sign statement that he is eligible to
compete under the spirit and letter
Of the conference rules.
AT the University of Minnesota many
changes are being made in the field
and equipment to allow the better
handling of the 500 men expected to
compete in the meet. The track is
being worked over daily and will be in
the best possible shape for the runners.
1t has been proposed to bring a Har-
ward track expert west for a week 10
see that the track is built exactly
right but the matter has not been
definitely settled. For the jumping
ground, cork is being tried In place Of
sand and If the trial is successful the
cork will be permanently substituted.
In the armory preparations are be-
ing made to house the coming 500. At
other conference meets 1t has been i'm
possible TO give every man a locker.
and In some cases adequate dressing
room could not be provided. The Min
nesota managers hope to furnish a
locker to every man that enters IT is
the present plans to give our the lock-
ers in sections to teams, so that the
men of each college will be together.
The large drill floor probably will be
used for rubbing and resting quarters.
The medals to be given at this |
meet will be Of regular conference de- |
sign. Winners Of firsts will get gold |
medals, winners of seconds silver and |
OF thirds bronze. Places count |
i've. three and one toward the meet |
In addition to the in /
aividual medals, the Spalding cup will |
be given to the winner to keep az a /
trophy until the next meet. II be- |
comes the possession OF any college |
winning 1t In three successive meets. /
Michigan has similar cup, won by
the 1901, 1902 and 1903 nnA4ts.
80 $500 IfOA@ VA LAC conference 4
is relay race. The college
winning this race will be presented !
With a large shield bearing the name
u the winner. the men running, the
late and circumstances. This shield
viii be the permanent possession of
he team winning 1t. The conferences
tself usually gives a trophy to the WIN
Ter of the meet.
Five records were broken and one
'qualled in the last conference meet.
I is hardly hoped that the records
his year will be changed as much. but
he coaches are preparing for fast
vents and some phenomenal results
re looked for. The new records set
ID were:
Mile, Baker OF oberiin. old, 4:s5;
lew, 4:204-5.
Quarter Davenport Chicago old o:4s
IS; new, 0;4S AS.
Two hundred ana twenty-five
Lurdles, Fletcher, Notre Dame. old.
:25; new, 0:24 A-5.
Half mile, Davenport, Kansas. old.
:57 2-6; new, 1856 as.
High jump, Baker, Kansas, old.
eet. II La inches: new. 8 feet Y
inches.
Davenport OF Chicago. who made
wo OF the new records. expects to be
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