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Show "In .the gymnaSium we notice several amateur bicyclists of world fame and local fame; also we notice .much excellent material which we think will develop into sprinters, vaulters and high Jumpers . We predict that the coming spring wlll be the most important, athletically, the University has ever known." ~ Chronicle, February 5, 1895. "How do you like the new fence around the campus? We must work hard now to pay for it . Ur . Lippinov deserves special credit for the way in which he worked to get it finlshed . "~~,Aprll9,1895 . The first official track meet was held by the Univer sity of Utah at calder's Park , now Nibl ey Park, on May 1, 1895. "The meet was an intersquad meet because there were no other competit1ve teams available at that time, as track was Just getting a foothold 1n the west , and the interest for this sport was not very dominating . " The events held were as follows : 100- yd . dash 400- yd . relay Hi gh Jump Broad jump 50- yd . dash Shot put At a track meet on May 4, 1899 , between the the Un1versity of Utah and the Brigham Young Academy the honors in the pole vault were even. "King of the University and Patterson of Brigham. Young Academy tied on 97 inches and Admission price to baseball ga.m.es in 1899 was • . 15 tor studsnts who were not members ot the Athletic Association . "The Athletic Association has appointed a committee to meke preparstions tor track training snd to procure a trainer to tske charge ot the work . " !h! Chronicle , February 14, "For seve r a l days , four men and three teams have been engaged In preparing the university campus for the big meet next Saturday . By hauling, scraping and plowing an excellent track has been made around the campus, with embankments at the ends, and with cinders spread on the part to be used for the dashes. The weeds have been hoed snd the large tree that used to be just south of the center ot the ca.m.pus bas been r emoved . " ~Cbronicle , Febr uary 28,1900 . President Joseph T. Kingsbur y announced on May I, 1 900 , that Harvey Robson Holmes would come to the University in the t all, as coach . Mr . Holmes was the tirst paid coach . "The visiting students wIll be served a luncbeon at the Univer s ity on the day ot t he contest. Contributions w11l be sol icited among the torm ot either money or ot eatables ." !h!~, May I , 1900 . Digital lmage C 2006, University of Utlh.AII rights reserved Itltwas a pretty sight when the meet began at 3 o ' clock. The Nevada boys came running out ot the south gate onto the track , looking natty and neat in their blue jerseys, with an arrow intertwining the two letters ItU . ll .1t The local bOys followed a little later , and they were greeted with cheers. They wore a red ItUIt on their breasts. It Salt Lake He r ald , May 27, 1900. "Aroused by the e nthusiasm of Miss Babcock, a club of about fifteen young men and WOmen students , including fac ulty instructors, have organized a golf club . " The Chronicle, October 11,1901. "Unluckily , yet amusedly , the Nevada team. of eighteen, includlng their coach, trainer, subs and their manager, J . P . PaCk , were put off the Rio Grande Western at Kaysville, as they held tickets for the Oregon Short Line . The reception committee, consisting of Manager George C. Riser , President \'1111 Dunn, Gill Richards and others, upon failing to meet the Nevada crowd at the station wednesday morning and upon learning of the sidetracking , went up to Kaysville and brought the Nevadans that afternoon . It ~ Chronicle, December 3 , 1901. "At t he Nevada tootball game in 1901 "nearly every tashionable equipage in the city was out to the game . Crl.m-son and silver flags , banners and ribbons waved like break-ers on a stormy sea . " J" ust before the start of the game on Thanksgiving Day "Governor Wells was led out onto the fIeld . He received an ovation that shook the trees in the far end of the pasture . The Governor was clad in a neat sack coat of gray. He had no coattails to get tangled up In his pedal extremities . The te8.tll8 scattered into place, and the ball was held upon tbe ground by a young stalwart from. Reno . The governor drew back a few feet . He paused. There was a momeot of suspense aod death-l ike stillness. Then tbe executive started tor-ward and the next instant was in contact , dangerous contact witb the oval , dangerous because had he missed it at the impetus with which he swung on the pigski n there would have been another story to tell . "But his excellency dIdo ' t teel in a kicking humor . The ball went sklm::ling a long the ground a tew rods and tell gracefully 10 the arms at a Utab man , who tossed it back and then the real kick-otr took place . The governor looked 00 in wonderment as the cootounded t hing soared in the air about a hundred yards , 80 it seemed , and bounded back a couple of hundred teet through the line ot Utab players. " '1ell , well ,' be observed .' " ~ Chronicle, December 3, Gil Ri chardS wes chosen track Jll8nager in February , 1902 . In tbe spring ot 1902 the track men did their indoor training in the l.!oore Gym which vas located on the east side or Meio Street betweeo First and Second South dtreets . Digital lmage C 2006, Universityof Utlh.Allrights reserved "The follO'l/ing have been chosen to make up the basketball team which will meet the L.D. S . team. about April 15th : Henry Mitchell and Will Redd, guerds ; Rass Milne, center; Willard Gardner and Lawrence Brocken , forwards; John Webster , substitute . " ~ Chronicle , March 31 , 1902. (Thia team. did not play sny games . ) University burned all the outfits and material and "further it might 1..mpair the strength of the track team ," and "there was such a short t1.me for the preparation for the college meet . " !h! Chronicle , April 8 , 1902. On October 2 , 1902 , the ilthletic ssociation Executive Camm.ittee decided to have 0 season ticket for ~2 . 50 . An eXhibition of discus throwing was given by athletes from the University of Colorado on May 26 , 1903, at a track meet between the t r ack teams from the University of Color ado sad the University of Ut ah . This was the first t1..me tbat the discus throwing bad ever been seen in Utah . In a football gSlDe with the Fort Douglas soldIers on October 13,1903 , "aquarterbackranfortbetirstt1.mein hiStory with tbe balL" The football squad the t Coach Harvey Holmes took to Denver in early October , 1903, consisted ot twelve~ . He Digital lmage C 2006, University of Utlh. AII rigllts reserved said on leaving that this team would "surprise the Boulder aggregation of Vlarriors . " Coach Warner of the Carl i sle teem was umpire and Coach Harvey R. Holmes referee for the carlisle-Utah game in De-cember , 1903 . " From a spectator ' s viewpo int the game was spectacula r , interesting and lively in every sense of the word . Such furious line bucks , brilliant quarter and end runs , with perfect and impenetrable interference had never been witnessed before on a local campus . All line men on either side of center shifted to the other side with l1ght-ening r apidity thus giving the runner a lightening start "The Athletic Field is being entirely remodeled . a new cinder track , one of the fines t in the west, is r apidly being put in shape , and will be ready for use when the spring meets begin ," TI!!~, April 1, 190:5 . Joseph H. Maddock held Spring footba ll p r actice for the fi r st time in the spring of 1905. rolled dOVin smooth and compact , ready for the season games ." ~Chronicle , October 11 , 190:5. JOSeph H. ~ddock and the foo tball boys went to Camp Lagoon in the fall of 1905 . This was the first year that a University football team had ever done any training be-fore the season began . On April the 5th , 1905, the office of graduate manager was abolished. George C. Riser retired after eight years of outstanding service . On February 14, 1907 , Coach Harvey R. Holmes of the University of Southern California, signed a contract whereby his track team. would meet the track team of the Univer-sity ot Utah in Salt Leke City in the early part of May . The ~ Pass was introduced by Coach Willis Bates of Fairmont College , now Vlichita College , Wichita, Kansas , Christmas Day , 1905 , in a ga..m.e played at Wichita by Fairmont College and Washburn College of Topeka . Coach Joseph H. Maddock used it for the first time in 1906, Fred Bennion to Fred Scr anton . He used it in 1907 , James E . Conv1l1 to Benere Grant; in 1908, Henry Richardson to Fred Monahan and Charles Houston ; and in 1909, Jack Loel, a great passer , to Milton H. Love, a great receiver . The two mile and the mile r elay races were run for the first time at the Stanford - University of Utah track meet , May 30 , 1908. In September , 1908, three full teams reported for tootball practice tor the first time. "The l"aculty of the colleges of Colorado have formed a permanent organization to be knO'.vn as the Athletic Conference of the Rocky Mountain Colleges." TI!! Chronicle, November 8, Freahmen and Sophomore students, nu.mberlng l~, gathered November c;l , 1908, at tha Pacific Lumber Company 00 South Temple. They carried boards to the oampus Bnd built a l arge scora boerd 00 Cwnm.iogs Field 24 feet long and aix feet Several hundred students cleared away the snow on Wed nesday before Thanksgiving Day, 1908. It snowed during the night and the University of Utah end the University of Idaho team.s played in ten inches of snow. The rule barring freshmen from. athletic participation was adopted in 1910 8S well as the rule allowing only four years of participation. Dr . Joseph F . Merrill was "the pr1l:!.a mover to have CWD!IIings Field sodded . " On March 21, 1910, he called !or volunteers to lay the pipe tor the sprin.lcling system . Enough men responded to do the wo rk . The receipts for the Thanksgiving Day Utah-Aggie tootball geme in H20 Viere $22 ,228.35 . Roscoe Miller was appointed Manager of Athletics by the Digital lmage C 2006, University of Utlh. AII riglrts reserved Athlet i c Council on July 22 , 1925. The sal ary was $800 . 00 . Dr . George Thomas approved the appointment on July 28 . Mr . Miller served i n this capacity trom August. 15 until Yay :U , The net loss tor the fi r st t.rip at the football team. to Hawaii in 1926 was Cllll.09. |
