Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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With more men taking part in athletics the need for larger facilities will be felt more and more. Better athletic equipment for the University, including a modern and adequate gymnasium, with a large swimming pool an indoor track, new locker and shower rooms under the Stadium, and improvements on Soldiers Field, are legitimate ways to spend any amount of surplus from gate receipts. Outsiders are only too glad to pay to see College athletics, and it is only right that they should. This seems to me a legitimate way for the University to get financial aid for fostering general athletics...
Most of the undergraduates undoubtedly feel that it costs too much to run our sports. The minor teams, which are on their own resources, have to economize strictly, but there is no doubt whatever that expenditures for the football and baseball teams, if not for crew or track, could be cut down largely by careful and business-like management, without hurting the teams. The pay of coaches, if they are the right sort, is I believe a legitimate expense, and a necessary one if we are to have first-class teams; but extravagance in training tables in the buying...
...taken off managers, who now have to devote a lot of valuable time to them, and off subscribers, who give grudgingly perhaps, or beyond their means because asked by a personal friend; (4) more men would see the games, and would be drawn into participating, especially in sports like track, lacrosse, and basketball, which can use men of almost any weight and build; (5) the managers, relieved of worry about subscriptions, could enormously increase the number of men in active competition. Even under the present system, the track management, by canvassing the dormitories and looking up individuals, was able...
...winter track carnival will begin this afternoon at 2 o'clock. All the events will be held in the Gymnasium, except the hurdle races and the dormitory relay races, which will be held on Holmes Field; also the cross-country race. There are about 400 entries in the carnival...
...preparation for the track carnival tomorrow, preliminary trials in the handicap and novice high hurdle races will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon on Holmes Field to reduce the number of competitors in these events to four men. The preliminary trials in the novice shot-put and in the novice and handicap high jump will take place in the Gymnasium at the same time, to reduce the number of competitors to eight men in each event. The following men will ofciate at the trials and are requested to be at the Gymnasium at 4 o'clock: judges...