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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...improvement of the team. New and better equipment for the runners and field event men have been purchased and improvements in the organization and management have been instituted. All contestants in each of the various events will report for practice together; that is, all long distance runners will meet at a certain fixed time and run together, all broad jumpers will practice at a certain time, rather than at intervals during the entire afternoon...
...winter track season, officially terminated by the Meadowbrook Meet in Philadelphia on March 10, the University track team has had unusual success. The relay team won the intercollegiate championship and, furthermore, established the intercollegiate record for the mile indoors. The time of three minutes 26 seconds flat lowered by two-fifths of a second the former intercollegiate mark held by the 1916 University team, and came within four-fifths of a second of equaling the world's record for the distance. In the meets the individual performers representing the University were not so successful as the relay...
...track team took part in ten indoor meets, the most important of which were the Coast Artillery games on January 27, the B. A. A. meet on February 3, the contest between the University, Pennsylvania and Dartmouth the 17th, the Naval Militia games on the 21st, the Johns Hopkins carnival the 24th, the I. C. A. A. A. A. on March 3, and the Meadowbrook games on March...
With the Yale dual meet less than eight weeks off, and the need of developing a strong, well-balanced team if the Elis are not to be winners again this year, a large number of additional candidates for both field and running events is expected out tomorrow. Especially are men needed for the pole vault and the high and broad jumps...
With less than eight weeks before the dual meet with Yale, the track squad needs much hard practice before it can be rounded into a winning aggregation. The Elis have the most formidable and best-balanced team in years, and if the University is to beat them on May 12, the team has plenty of work to do between now and then...