Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-31 | Page 9 | Utah Track Team Grabs R. M. C. Title

Utah Track Team T am Grabs RM A A. link to the University of Utah's chain of at Rocky Mountain conference champions for 1931 was forged by the track and field team which literally ran away from the rest of 01 the field and hoisted the banner of victory after af- af after af al ter an attack on conference records In the R R. M. M C. C meet at Denver Headed by a list of brilliant individual indi vidual performers including Nate Long who has held the championship in the and yard dashes Byron Buck Grant champion hurdler and Bill BUl another hurdler the Ute made a clean sweep of dual meets with Brigham Young university university uni uni- and Utah Aggles the Utah state meet and the conference jam boree In the first duet Utah stacked up points against the Utah Aggles allowing the but 34 3 Against the B. B Y U. U Long and Grant hustled their mates to a 2 1071 12 to 37 12 2 win and then carried on to amass a total of 82 markers in 1st the state meet Brigham Young took second with 40 and the Aggles trailed with 31 While at least lj one state mark fell fellin in every local meet conference records rec- rec records rec were shattered In Denver one by Grant who stepped the high hur lIes dIes in bettering the former record rec ree- ord of of Grant t topped the longstanding long standing high jump record in Utah with of 6 feet 2 8 3 inches The former mark was held by Alma Richards Richards Rich Rich- ards who ascended the high Jump throne in 1911 Bill BIlI clipped the low hurdle record from 24 5 2 to 23 5 3 in the conference setto Grant took the conference trophy for high scorer chalking up 18 points to win the prize Utah's total at Denver amounted to 73 points Colorado Aggles were second see sec end and with 62 and Colorado university third with 45 Utah Aggie breezed in fourth with 20 12 2 and Brigham Young grabbed fifth position with an even dozen points One of the most consistent point getters of the year for Utah was the mile nile relay team of Long Iong Woolen Wooten and HartensteIn They cs es a new state record for their event former mark by bya a full second Their time was 3 5 The overwhelming superiority of the Utah team made made it possible for forthe the Hilltop athletes to grab practically cally alby everything in the way of choice sports ports plums The basketball ba team I preceded the with the R. R M. M C. C title and the football team was conceded a championship even at that season of the year Thus the three major pennants float over the Utah campus as s a token of athletic superiority