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Show Review of the Track Season of 1912THE acquisition of an indoor track afforded an advantageous beginning for the year's work. From the end of the Christmas vacation until sturdy"Old King Cole" was elected to captain the 1913 team, there was no lying down in the harness. The result was not only a victory in every meet, but also a triumph in the form of proper athletic spirit-a feature without which other achievements would be in vain.Our accidental defeat in the 1911 intercollegiate track meet was a godsend. From that mournful day until the end of the following season, there was an effective and wholesome acceleration of enthusiasm-an ingredient of success that had been theretofore scantily administered because of the stellar ability of Utah's individual performers on track and field. There had been Bennion, Brinton and Richardson on the track teams for so long that the memory of man ran not to the contrary. The presence of these stars and the nature of the sport itself, little required any spirit among the athletes.May 13, 1911, marked the passing of such men, and also recorded Utah's first bump in a state meet. But the coach and the 1912 team, in the absence of record-breakers, and remembering this single defeat, toiled faithful fov several months, developed a substantial, all-round aggregation, and came out of every meet with a well balanced victory.Aside from one versatile prodigy, no makers of startling track history honored the 1912 team. Those who in the future search the records of these events, will find the year quite barren of unusual results; but those who actually witnessed the diligent, energetic, and almost heroic efforts of last year's track athletes, will concede that their well earned victories were none the less glorious.Besides the fighting, come-back attitude that characterized the work of each man, another variety of their spirit is worthy of commendation. They were a team. From the spectator's view-point there are no extensive opportunities for cooperation in track meets, and too often the spectator is not deceived. Last spring, however, the Utah way of doing things was adopted, in all its genuineness, by the members of the track squad. They persistently worked among themselves for their common good, and for a common cause. It was this get-and-stay-together method that enabled them to achieve what at the outset of the season appeared impossible-the regaining of a lost championship. t$/ f) STONE.TRACK 1913.--The results of the Spring Handicap Meet, April 12, and the Dual Meet with Provo, May 3, (U. of U. 67, B. Y. U. 54), show a strong, well balanced 'Varsity track team, not perceptibly impaired by the loss of the "Phenom" Robison.It is not improbable that the meet at Boulder on May 24, though our first clash in track with Colorado teams, may result in another Rocky Mountain Championship for Utah. |