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Show Track Team of 1931SENIOR CINDER MENEight outstanding Redskins have completed their final year on the varsity track team. Each one has contributed liberally of his talent in carrying Crimson colors to the front in the Rocky Mountain Conference. When the starter's gun barks next spring, Utah "U" will feel keenly the losses sustained in their graduation, and track fans throughout the region will also find it hard to forget them.For four j^ears the work of Co-captains Buck Grant and Nate Long has been outstanding. Not only have they drawn the plaudits of fans and officials in this region, but their fame has gone beyond our eates to catch the attention of national critics. Long, who specialized in speed, has negotiated the 100 yard and 220 yard dashes in record-breaking times, as well as broad jump with facility. Grant holds both state and conference records in the high jump and the high hurdles. He has, also, been a consistent winner in the low hurdles and broad jump. For the past two track seasons both of these men have monopolized intermountain contents, and are ex-pected to make strong bids for the United States Olympic team in 1932.In Wootton and Rideout, Utah has been represented by two powerful men in the 440 yard dash. These quarter-mile specialists with James McDonald have also performed creditably on the mile relay team the past two years.Wilton Ivie, the indomitable distance runner, though he goes about his two-mile run with little or no ceremony, has not gone unnoticed by those who know distance runners when they see them. Ivie pulled a tendon last year, but it did not throw him out of the game. This season has been one of his brightest.Lee Newman, a weight man of more than ordinary merit, has represented the Crimson in the shotput and discus. His loss to this department will not be easily overlooked.Tom Barker is the eighth senior man to be graduated. He has been a consistent plugger during the past four years and has added points to Utah's track scores in the mile and half-mile races in which he has specialized.232 |