El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-16
1900 COLLEGE ATHLETES COMPETE
IN NATIONAL MEET At CAMBRIDGE
Yale Has 146 Entrants the Largest Number of Any OF
the Intercollegiate Contenders; Stanford and the
University of California Sending Teams East to
Enter Meet; Many Have Won High HonOrs.

lew YORK. May 16.-More than
NJ 1900 entries are in the hands Of
i Y the secretary Of the Intercoleg-
iate Association Of Amateur Athletes
Of America for the 41st championship
games Of the association, TO be held
at Cambridge Mass. May 26 and p.
Twenty-four colleges and universities,
including Stanford and California from
the Pacific coast and Michigan from
the middle west, have entered teams
and the two day meet in the Harvard
stadium promises to be one OF the
most closely contested in the history
of the organization.
Yale leads with 1l6 entrants, the
New Haven university having named
the limit number OF contestants in n
majority OF the 10 events, which com
pose the program OF track and field
contests. Cornell. the present intercol-
legiate championship holder. is second
with 1872 and Princeton third with III.
Michigan is well up in the list with 81
names while Stanford has % and
California 10. Among the other inst-
buttons which have entered large
teams are Pennsylvania, Amherst
Dartmouth, Harvard, Mass. T. T., Penn.
state. and Syracuse Georgetown is
the only southern representative.
some Enter fn Every Event.
The colleges which have entered
contestants in every event include;
Amherst Bowdoin, Cornell, Oar lnoutn'
Harvard. Stanford, Mass. ]. T., Michi-
gan, New York University, Penn. state,
PENNSYLVANIA. Princeton, syracuse ana
Yale. The University of Maine also
entered a number Of athletes but the
names were received considerably
after the official time set for the clos
ing Of the lists and there is some
doubt as to whether these entrants VIII
entries are confined to the two hurdle
and five field events. The largest
number Of entries have been received
for the sprints, runs and broad jump
totalling well over one hunored IN
each of these contests.
Among the prominent individual en-
trants, who have earned intercollegiate,
national or international honors on
Cornell, Shriverick. Shelton, WIND
nagle. Potter. Hoffman, Starr, Rlch-
ards. Foss, McCutcheOni stanford FREQ
Murray, Lynn, Aupperle, House, Li acn-
Pennsylvania. Kaufman, Meredith
lennon. Berry. Newsletter, Dorizas;
Harvard, Tescher. Minot. Wilco1'
Bingham. tombstone, Haydock; Mlchl-
gan, smith. o.Brrien. Ufer; carroll Ia
lett. Cross; California, Preble, Baker
Nichols. Gildersleeve, RlchardSon'
Yale. Treadway. Overton. Leisenring,
OIer: Princeton. Moore. Barrett, FlOto;
Dartmouth, Worthington and Miner;
Syracuse, Curtiss and White; Penn
State, Hammitt and Brown.
Entries by Colleges.
The number Of entries by colleges
in each event is as follows:
100 yard dash-104 entries as fol-
lows: Amherst, G; Bowdoin, 6; Colby,
.: Columbia. .; Cornell. 10; Dartmouth,
G: Georgetown, 3; harvard, 10; Haver-
ford. ]: Johns Hopkins. 2; Lafayette,
I: Stanford. 3: Mass. l. T., 8; Michigan,
p: n Y. Univ. .; Penn. State. :; Penn
svlvanfa. 6; Princeton, 9; Rutgers, 2;
Syracuse. 5: Yale, IL.
22O yard dash: ITO entries-Am-
herst, 6; Bowdoin. 6; Brown. 2; Colby,
- Columbia, 8. Cornell, 10; Dartmouth,
6. Georgetown, 3; Harvard, 9; Johns
Hopkins. 2; Stanford, 3; Mass. L. T., s; |
Michigan, 4; n. Y. Univ, 2; Penn. State,