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Show TRACK RESUME Rocky Mountain Championships were not alone confined to football and basketball last year. Redskin cinder artists for the first time in four years ran off with the conference bunting. For four years the work of Buck Grant and Nate Long has been outstanding. Not only have they drawn the plaudits of the fans and officials in this region but their fame carried far into the East. In the Detroit Invitational Meet last July, Buck Grant was high point man and Nate Long drew several firsts in the Denver Relays. The year's record for the Utah track men was never marred with defeat from the time of the first gun in the B. Y. U. meet until the final point was garnered in the Conference Meet at Golden. Victories over Brigham Young University and the Utah State Agricultural College were won in the state and dual meets. In the conference meet, held in Colorado, the Redskins bested the field by ten points, first places being garnered in the dashes, hurdles, two-mile run, high jump, broad jump, and relays with no little merit going to Grant, Long, Ivie, Cox, Barker and Newman. Eight valuable men hung up their spikes at the close of the season and their loss to the Ute lair has been felt in the 1932 season. In the first meet of the 1932 season the Utah team, under Captain Bill Mordock, easily ran away from the field and outpointed the U. S. A. C. The dual meet at B. Y. U. was disastrous for the Redmen, and they were beaten by four points, the loss coming only in the last relay. Utah conference hopes, however, look bright as the inexperienced freshmen phenoms, Rush-forth, Fetzer, Greenwell, and Acomb, are beginning to wear off the greenness. Harold Wright, Canadian flash, is a sure point-getter in the dashes and he will be pressed by Jackie Bennett and Porky Greenwell. Fishburn and Mordock are point-getters in the hurdles and Cox, Hodge, Rushforth, and Richins will make the jumping an interesting fray. Utah Track Team - Rocky Mountain Champions 1931 Page Two Hundred Sixteen |