Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-12-30

Cormick and track coach Jim Kelly
are in New Orleans completing plans
for the annual National Collegiate
Associations track meet to be con-
tested in the Minnesota stadium late
in June.
Those who see that show will vir-
tually see the United States Olympic
team which will compete in Tokyo
in 1910 for the college boys of 1888
provide the material from which 80
per cent of the personnel of the Olym-
pic team will rise.
For two days the greatest runners,
jumpers, vaulters, hurdlers, weight
throwers will be in action Every
major university in the country and
most of the smaller colleges will have
teams entered in this great spectacle
They will come from Texas, Califor-
MIA, Maine and all intervening points.
1t is probable every one of the 48
states will have athletes in compe-
tition here.
Although a track and field meet
does not have the spectacular appeal
of a championship football game, it
does undoubtedly have more true
athletic ability. The incentive pro-
vided by the Olympic games every
four years gives track and field men
consuming desire to attain excel
lence in their events It is a con-
slant spur. 1t draws the finest ath-
letes into this sport and keeps them
inspired in training.
The result is there is probably more
sheer ability in the N c. A. track
championships than in any athletic
event of the year.
The event in Minnesota's stadium
next June will not be the Olympic
games, but it will be just a shade
below the Olympics in grandeur.
There will be enough track and field
talent at hand to beat the rest of the
world.
The Pacific Coast conference, for
example, will send first, second and
third place winners in each of Is
events. In addition to that several
of the universities will enter COM
plete teams. There will be more than
100 men from west of the Rockies.
There will be another 100 or more
from Texas alone.
Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Dart
mouth will each send complete team
of about 20 men and so, of course,
will each Big Ten university. In
cidentally, the meet will be the oc-
casion for gathering of most of the
coaching talent of the country. 1t
has become the custom of football
coaches to hold informal meetings at
the time of the track and field cham
pionships. Nearly every big gun in
the football coaching profession will
be here, nearly every important ath-
letic director.
Most of them will arrive several
days ahead of the meet. AS result
Minneapolis will be the capitol of
the college sports world for a solid
week. In CONJUNCTION with the track
meet there will be a coaching school,
probably the largest coaching school
ever organized and with the most
distinguished enrolment Bierman,
Waldorf, Howard Jones, Stub Ali
son, Doc Sutherland, Dick Harlow
Bob Zuppke, many others, will be
pupils one moment, instructors the
next.
Such a multitude of details must
be attended to in the presentation of
such a sports spectacle with all its
side-shows that work has already
begun in arranging the program.
Mccormick and Kelly are determined
to make this the greatest track and
field meet America has ever had and
there is not much doubt they will
succeed.
They are asking Minnesota citizens
to do their share, to make seat reser-
vations early and to pack the stadium
for the two days of the meet.
And 1 do not hesitate to assure
the fans that this is a show they
should not miss.