The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-04-10
ATHLETICS at
EASTERN SCHOOLS
Many Track and Field Meets
Willie Held This
Spring. ....

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NEW YORK, April 1o-Ipterest in
college trick and feld athletics CON
tinuea TO increase among the Eastern
uniyersities and the coming season
promises to surpass all epreYto us rec:
oria both In number Of meets and
stars Who will comp etc. While there
ii no unusual incent tive for special
trainfne, sRWould have been the cease
Ind not the Europe can war caused the
a6andoning Of the Olympic games,
iarFer SQUADS OF cand ates are trying
Tor places on the teams than in many
Reports from the coaches q num-
her Of the leading Eastern institutions
iii agree that the material both in
quality and quantity is considerably
above theiayerage standard and that q
number Of records are likely to be
broken during the coming competitive
season. While the belated winter has
delayed stheSba ginning Of outdoor train
INF In some cases, the coaches expect
10 overcome this handicap and send
fheir charges to the mark Id the big
meets Drehared for the hardest kind
pf competition.
Thaf the struggle for points and
priSesfWil1S he unusually keen this sea-
sonsis shoRnlbys the number and class
oflenfriesg already assured for the prin-
cfpa1 meets: The University OF Penn
syIvania Relay Games, which really
omen the Easter track season, has at
fracted d larger entry than ever be-
fore: many teams coming from. the
South and west More olleges will
compete In the 1ntercolle gate Champ
ionshipfmeat at Cambridg late in May
ffiandn anyfyear since the association
was formed in 1876. Stanford and
California will represent the Far West
and Michigan the Middle West. Be
tween the Pennsylvania relay meet
and the i! %. "a. "a. "a. a. champion
ships, dual and triangular meets are
scheduled for almost every Saturday,
fhaYlfst OF the more important events
being as follows:
college Athletic Meet
April 22-LeWiston, Me, Bates VS..
RoRdoin dual; Baltimore Md: Johns
Hopkins rs. Swarthmore dual.
April 27.2s-Ph elphia, Univers:
itytof Pennsylvania barclay meet
April 29AProyidence Brown VS.. Am!
herst dual.
May 6-Philadel hia, Dartmouth VS..
Pennsylyania dual; Pittsburgh, SYRIA
cnssIYs. pittsburgh dual; New Haven,
Yale vs. Princeton dual 3 Brunswick.
NIL. q. vs.. Bowdoin dual; New York,
BroWnYs.S Cotumbi dual; NJ tddletown,
Conn, Colgate VS. Wesleyan dual !;
ithaca, MY, Harvard VS.. Cornell dual |;
SWarthmore; Rutgers VS.. Swarthmore
dual: Amherst. Amherst vs.. Williams
dual; Annapolis Lafayette VS.. Navy
lily s-Brunswick, Me, Maine In
fefcoiIegiate Champ Cam
bridge, Harvard vs.. Yale dual; Ann Ar
bors AHchigansys. Syracuse dual; VII
namstoWn; Williams VS.. Wesleyan
dhal: New York, Mid dies States Inter
eoiisgfate Ghampio ship; Philadel-
pGia, Gornel vs.. pennsylvania dual.
May 1E-Eastons Pa Lehigh vs..
lafayette dual; Swarthmore; New
York University VS.. Swarthmore dual.
May 0-Haverford, Swarthmore vs..
Hayerford dual; New Brunswick, N.
j. Rutgers Va. lafayette dual; SYRIA
rrse, G6lgatefys Syracuse dual.
May 1ss20ABo ston, New England In
fercoliegiate champio nship.
Nay 1920 Philad elphia, Middle
States Junior and Senior champion
Nay sRarthmore. Lafayette
and Swarthmore dual. FL II n
Nay 1852 Boston. intercollegiate
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