Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-26
BIG DEMAND AT YALE
 FOR TRACK IN BOWL
Much Opposition to Decision Against Building Cinderpath in the New Arena at New Haven.

Yale students are up in arms over the decision of the committee Of 2l not to build a running track in the Yale bowl Prominent members of the alum nj have been urging the erection of a track for some time, and it was ex- pected that arrangements would be made so that the costly structure would not be idle three -fOurthS of the year. IL is the unanimous opinion of the un- dergra duate body at that university that the incorporation of track would benefit not only one sport, but Yale athletics as whole Many protests have been received against the com mittee's decision and the Yale News, in a recent editorial, said:
 According to the present plan there will be no running track in the Yale bowl This great structure, cost ing in the neighborhood of $700,000, will be in use for only two months of the year-October and November. The track authorities have objected to this plan. pointing out the adaptabll- ity of the bowl to track athletics, and submitting a scheme for the copstruc- ton of track complying with every requirement.. In this it would seem that they are justified. Track is a very inn portant sport with a worldwide and world old popularity, yet it's facilities at Yale are not to be compared to those provided for the other major sports.
 Could Get Big Meet
 Each year the intercollegiate meet is held at Harvard or Pennsylvania. It has never taken, place at Yale, for the simple reason that Yale has neith- CT suitable dressing rooms nor ade- quate seating accommodations. Re gently, however, the I. c. A, A. A. A. petitioned the committee of 21 to build oaT- nj fering them, upon this condition, an opportunity of holding the intercollegi- ate meet at Yale. The desirability of having such a meet here in so far as it would benefit track in the univer- sity, while securing for(Yale one of the great events of the athletic world can not be exaggerated.
 gro be sure the committee in charge of the bowl has urged the track team to wait three or four years until the graduates can be further canvassed for money for the erection of 8 sep arate plant with covered stands to seat 15,000 This, of course, might solve the difficulty but many feel that the grad uate reservoir has been already sufh- ciently drained, without asking for this additional sum.
 A New Plan.
 'The committee of 21 however, brings up number of arguments against the project. Briefly, the ob1ec- tions are-that a 220 yard straight away is essential to the track equip ment that tunnel must be cut through the embankment of the bowl to give the required length. at the excessive cost of from $40,0O0 to $50,00O, that the air pressure and wInd currents in the tunnel would hinder the runners, and the other colleges would therefore re- fuse to compete on such a track.
 We suggest another seemingly more practical arrangement. By cutting out at each end of the stadium a slice of the enbankment measuring about 20 yards in depth by in width, and con meeting the two by a track, running along through the middle of the foot ball field, we would have a 220 yard straightaway, so that by starting in one of the cut-outs we would have nine tents of the race and the Snish in full view of the spectators, with ample room after crossing the line