The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-05
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MASS ATHLETICS H Ii
MEETING FAVOR
May Is Selected as Date for
First Meet at illini

Urbana, Ill.,, May $50 much favor
able comment has come from other
western conference universities re.
garding mass athletics, the project OF
Coaches Robert C. Zuppke and Harry
Gill of the University Of Illinois, that
May Is has been selected as the date
for the first meet.
A team Of 800 men IS to represent
each school in the contest, which con.
sists of four events, bomb throwing,
high jumping, broad jumping and the
10O-yard DASH. Members of all classes
from freshmen to graduates are eligt.
BILE, regardless of their scholastic de.
ficiencies Membership on varsity
squad is the only bar to participation.
Each team will perform on its own
athletic field, May 25, and wire its
scores to each of it's rivals. Thus,
while each team is going through its
PAGES, giant scoreboard in the cen.
ter of the field will tell Of the work
of its opponents. .,..... ~,,.-,.1s.~.
Every one of the Qo3 contestants
will compete in all four Of the events.
He will try to throw a 30-ounce hand
grenade IS feet into fenced off area
six feet wide and II feet in length.
This area will be fenced in by a. six
inch board and divided into three sec.
tions-bullseye, which counts FIVE
points: middle ring, counting three
points and outer circle, which is worth
one score. The grenade must TALL into
the ring, not roll or bounce In. The
total score for the 800 trials will con-
stitute the teams score in the event.
In the running high Jump, one trial
is given each man, who. is entitled
to name the height at which he will
try to cross the bar, The total mum.
Der Of feet leaped will make up the
team total. In the same manner, the
total distance jumped in the broad
Jump is recorded. while the loOyard
dash is run against time. thettea
with the lowest record for the>>otal
10000 yards wins. ,l,.,~a 49,.
Already four conference schools,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio State and
Iowa State university, have PROMISED
to enter the meet. Ames, Nebraska
and Missouri have requested admis:
sion and Camp Dodge, Ia, and Camp
Sewer, Tenn, have written to Coach
Zuppke regarding the possibility OF
staging dual meet between the sol
diers and collegians. s,4 a.y - ,.>v
Such q meet will probably be ar
ranged unless the schools close earlier
than usual. I ,.J.3. uta. psi.
Preparations for organizing team
at Illinois are under way. the cand1'
dates being divided into 80 teams. The
preparatory training suggested IS sim,
ple, three days of each week being al
That is required for. practice: Then
the contestants, .arrayed in odd duds,
and tennis shoes run the lou yards.
throw the bomb two or three times
and practice the take on Tor the
'Unstinted approval Of the plan has
been given by Dr.. Cooke, director OF
athletics at the University OF Mime, inn
sofa. 81 think it is an excellent plan.
he wrote in letter to Mr. luppSe'
ut seems to the best possible so!n;
ton of the problem of athletics lot
everybody" - ~ ~,
According to the Illinois coaches me
nroiect will be enlarged to permit the
ompetition of teams from s,eoo 10
! 90 men, as soon as its success has
become assured. ,.l .