Word: tracking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That the University in has complete abolition of major sport teams has been in the wrong is useless to deny. It is hoped that those in control will be broad-mined enough to realize the mistake before spring and that we shall again have a baseball nine, a track team and a crew representing the University and taking part in outside contests under the West Point system...
...last practice encounter before the dual race with Yale 1921 next Saturday night, four Freshman runners for the second time defeated Boston College yesterday afternoon. The 390-yard relay, which was run on the board track at Soldiers Field, was won by the work of D. F. O'Connell '21, who started with a handicap of two yards and passed his opponent at the first corner by taking advantage of the latter's wide turn. Once in the lead, O'Connell was not headed again, and finished four yards ahead of Barry of Boston College...
Among the runners practising on the board track yesterday in preparation for the B. A. A. meet on Saturday was "Jole" Ray of the Illinois Athletic Club, who last year won the three-mile championship event in the B. A. A. meet, and who now holds several records in distance events...
...practice race was held yesterday on the board track at Soldiers Field between a team composed of four Freshmen: C. A. Page, J. M. B. Churchill, C. H. Baldwin and F. L. A. Cady, and one composed of three members of the informal squad: D. J. Duggan '20, B. Lewis '20, captain of the informal cross-country team last fall, L. B. Evans '20, and one Freshman, A. W. Douglass '21. The race was won easily by the informals over the regulation 1,560-yard distance. The next practice run for 1921 will be staged on Soldiers Field next Tuesday...
...informal relay team has been entered in the B. A. A. meet to race against M. I. T. In preparation for this meet Coach Donovan has been directing the squad daily in relays around the track. The most promising of the candidates for the informal four are B. Lewis '20, D. J. Duggan, '20, L. B. Evans '20, W. H. Goodwin '20, C. R. Larrabee '19 and F. F. Williams...