Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-09
AMATEURS TO CONTEST
 DESPITE GREAT DISTANCE,
Sweden Will Send Best Team of Track
 Athletes to America.

That a stretch of many thousand miles Of land or water no longer acts | as a bar to amateur sports contests is to be again demonstrated during the coming season of outdoor competition. Sweden is to send a track team of her | best athletes to America for a series | of international meets and almost ev- l cry college schedule shows one or more | ticularly true in the 1915 football, | intersectional contests. This is par rowing, baseball and athletic dates. A five to ten day trip across the continent no longer feazes the Paci- | f1c coast athlete. Stanford and Cali | fornia universities are both likely to be represented in the big eastern and middle western intercollegiate track meets with more than an even chance that one or both varsity crews will row at either Ithaca or Pough- | keepsie. California is at present a member of the eastern intercollegiate | association and Stanford has made application for election to member ship at the next annual meeting.
 Have Been East Before.
 Both Stanford and California have competed, off and on for some years, meets. California also has invaded the eastern intercollegiate champion ships, but Stanford has never sent her athletes to the Atlantic coast for a test against the pick of the eastern | universities. The two Pacific coast | institutions are expected to have un- usually strong track and field teams | this year and if they enter fair-sized | squads in the eastern and middle | western intercollegiate meets which rar-coast collegians are likely to prove factors e greater importance in the final apportionment of points.
 The conference records show that in recent years these universities have scored victories in many events. In i, 1910 both were among the leading DOint-winners. A year later CaIifor- mia was third out of field of 13. Missouri and Chicago taking first and second places. California won in 1912 from a field of 15 point-win- ming colleges. The succeeding season the Berkeley athletes ran fourth and
 In 1914 Stanford was a second and California sixth out of 21 colleges to
 score.
 caIifornia's Record.
 California's record in the eastern
 collegiate dates back to 1895 when
 the coast athletes won fifth place with
 seven points. They came back again
 in 1900 and took sixth place with
 eight points and two years later were
 seventh with nine. After a lapsa ot and won seventh place with ten , points, and in 1914 took sixth D1aCa
 with eighten points, Last season at , Philadelphia California did not com
 pete, but 13 colleges split 195 points Eighty-four of these have been lost
 by the graduation of place-winners and III points are represented by athletes still in college. Cornell. the
 1915 winner. retains the largest mum her. having thirty-one and a half out
 of the winning forty-flve and a haIt
 a year ago. Should Stanford and Call ] fOrnia appear with strong teams or
 May 26 and 27. the splitting of points
 may prove disastrous for Cornell and Dartmouth, which finished in the } Harvard. Vale, Pennsylvania Prince ton and Dartmouth, which finished ir that order at Franklin field in 1915.