Saturday night in the 102nd Regiment Armory in New York City the University track team will encounter the keenest track and field opposition the East can produce when it participates in the seventh annual indoor Intercollegiate championship meet of the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America. The present I. C. 4A meet, a stellar feature of the winter season, had its official origin in 1922. when the first meet was held, and at a meeting of the I. G. 4A authorities, it was decided to make the event an annual affair. The initial classic was held in New York City on Saturday, March 11, 1922, and was the first intercollegiate meet since 1911. It attracted the attention of 16 colleges and in the following years continued to draw the greatest track stars of the East into competition.
Cornell takes initial Meet.
Twenty members of the University and Freshman track squads journeyed to New York in 1922 to take part in the first I.C.A.A.A.A. meet. It was far down in the list in the ultimate scoring, however, as Cornell's well-balanced track team captured the team trophy-with a score of 35 1.2 points. The University runners finished in seventh place, its only scores coming in the weight throwing, mile, high jump, and Freshman relay. Dartmouth was second with Pennsylvania, Princeton, Penn Sate, and Yale finishing in that order.
In the next five meets the University track team worked its way up to two consecutive victories in 1926 and 1927. These were banner years for Coach E. L. Farrell's men, the Crimson runners capturing the I. C. 4A meet within a week after-running away with the Triangular classic. The winners of the six meets are as follows: 1922, Cornell; 1923, Pennsylvania; 1924, Pennsylvania; 1925, Georgetown; 1926, Harvard; 1927 Harvard.
Pennsylvania is High Scorer.
Although both Pennsylvania and Harvard have each taken two of the six in door Intercollegiate classics, the former has accumulated the greatest number of points. The Pennsylvanians have now 134.76 points to their credit, while the University is second with 120.741 points. Cornell is third with 119 points. The ten high scorers follow with their totals: Tibbetts Holds Two-mile Record. The I. C. 4A program is featured with the following events which are given with the present records and the athletes who hold them. The only University runner who has a place among the indoor I. C. 4A stars is W. I. Tibbets '26 who ran the Intercollegiate record two-mile on March 6, 1926. He accomplished it in 9 minutes, 30 4-5 seconds. 70-yard dash--7 1-10 sec. Harold Lever, Pennslyvania, March 3, 1923; F. V. Hussey, Boston College, March 6, 1926. 60-yard high hurdles 7 8-10 sec. H. E. Barron, Penn State, March 11, 1922. 70-yard high hurdles 8 6-10 sec. (Time made in heat.) C. H. Moore, Penn State, March 7, 1925. Mile run 4 min., 17 8-10 sec, J. J. Connolly, Georgetown, March 3, 1923. Mile relay 3 min., 21 4-10 sec. Syracuse, March 5, 1927. Two-mile relay 7 min., 41 6-10 sec Georgetown, March 7, 1925. (Also world's record). Two mile run--9 min., 30 8-10 sec. W. H. Tibbetts '26, March 6, 1926. Running broad jump--23 ft., 1 1-8 in. W. A. Dowling, Georgetown, March 7, 1925. Pole vault--13 ft. N. B. Sherrell, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1925. S. R. Bradley, Princeton, and S. W. Carr, Yale, March 5, 1927. Running high jump--6 ft., 4 7-8 in. Leroy Brown, Dartmouth, March 11, 1922. Shot put--47 ft., 5 3-4 in. R. G. Hills, Princeton, March 7, 1925. 35-pound weight--52 ft., 9 1-4 in. F. D. Tootell, Bowdoin, March 3, 1923. Freshman medley relay--7 min., 45 2-10 sec. Pennsyivania, March 11, 1922
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