Wallowing through a sea of mud, the athletes entered in the I.C.4A. meet in Philadelphia completed the first day of the trials and when evening came the score sheet listed 10 Harvard men among the qualifiers, the largest group to represent any one college.

Despite the fact that Harvard headed the list of qualifiers, Stanford's Cardinals last night remained a firm favorite to capture the meet and thus complete a 10-year hold on the title by the Pacific coast. One of the most unusual upsets was the dramatic failure of Sam Klopstock, Stanford's favorite in the high hurdles and the defeat of Dick Hardy of Cornell, defending champion in the 100-metre dash.

Cornell Out of Running

Cornell was knocked out of the running by a series of misfortunes that left the Ithacans with but four qualifiers. Yale was third in the numbers eligible for competition today with a list of seven men who passed through the trials successfully.

The Crimson placed men in seven events, including Dick Hayes in both hurdles and Johnny Dean in the shotput as well as the discus. The most impressive Harvard showing was the placing of Healey, Millard and Dean in order behind Slinger Dunn, Stanford's discus specialist.

Yale's chief setbacks came in the hammer throw, in which Hilman Holcombe was the only Eli qualifier and no better than fourth among the six survivors, and the 200-metre low hurdles, where Charley Pierson and Charles Dunbar both had a hard time qualifying among the ten picked for the finals today.