New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
Promise of Most Active
Track and Field Season
in Many Years.
INDOOR MEET LENDS
A STRONG STIMULUS
More than 1000 Men Hard at
Work for Relay Carnival at
Madison Square Garden.

With more than 1000 athletes in
training a. the twenty-nIne colleges
and universities represented in the
intercollegiate Association OF Amateur
Athletes Of America, the officers OF the
organization are predicting a season OF
brilliant track and field competition
during the next few months.
One o, the encouraging reports beng
received is the increased size OF the
squads At a number OF the smaller IN
stitutions. While the larger univer'-
tiles have a numerical advantage, the
average in proportion to total attend
ance ia extremely close.
Squads ranging from 100 TO 300 are
in active training at Cornell, Pennsy!-
vsnia Yale. Harvard, Princeton and
Dartmouth. while double figure groups
car ne seen almost any afternoon az
work in the New England and New
York State colleges.
Indoor and outdoor tracks are both
utilized. according 20 weather coma
lions. although conditions are not aliEe
az ali the colleges. Harvard, Pernsyl.
veria and Princeton have constructed
tracks for the runners and pits Tor the
cold athletes under the stands OF the
football stsdiums.
These courses, protected from ram
and snow, are always in condition Tor
The sprinters. shot putters and jump,
ers. Al Cornell an open air ooard
tyack "a the scene OF midwlnter tram
inc, the snow being shovelled ana
banked around the entire circuit. AZ
other universities the gymnasium
track and baseball cages are used for
the same purpose. -,
A result OF the quality OF atm
Lotto material available az majority
~ the colleges, unusual interest Is
being shown in both the indoor and
outdoor meets scheduled for the 1910
season. The list of dates for dual re
Law and intercollegiate games Is Iarger
than at any time since the FORMATION
OF the association in 1876.
The two seasons are sharply dehneo'
however. and each is TO be Drought 10
a climax with an intercollegiate meet
under the direct auspices OF the asso-
citation. This is an innovation, ior
heretofore the 7. c. A. A. A. A. mas
held onlv one official set Of games each
year. =,
tho two meets this season for the mi,
,jal indoor Intercollegiate, 20 be heIu
Of Madison Square Garden on SATURDAY
night. March 6. when there VIII De
team competition along novel lines.
The programme, consisting OF nine
events. will be composed OF six relay
races and three field events with team
If four or five athletes competing IN
each contest. With almost all the AS
ISOLATION membership represented, tne
meet will bring together the greatest
collection Of college athletes ever as
sembled for indoor games.
Following this meet there Will De
short break in the training routine
after which the athletes Will starr
preparation for the championships 70
be held during the final week OF May
The scene OF these games will be Sc
lected at the annual meeting OF the
associstion 70 be held on the afternoon
preceding the indoor Intercollegiate.
Pennsylvania. Yale, Harvard syria.
cuse and Princeton are all in the field
for the fortieth annual championships
and the contest for the privilege OF
keen az the indoor track and field COM
petitions which will follow the annual
meeting.
The bugaboo that has been keeping
Syracuse students awake o nights for
the last few weeks has been buried
and Frank J. ("Buck'0 O'Neil, the foot
ball coach. will return TO direct the
Orange and Black eleven for 1915. This
became known last week, when O'Neill
scratched his name at the bottom Of a
contract calling for his services for
the next twelve months.
Rumors that gained strength every
day began TO circulate several weeks
ago about the Syracuse campus, that
O'Neill, stung by certain criticisms
| Of his methods and ability, had decided
20 throw up his position as coach and
retire TO the practise Of law, believing