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Show BYU Invitational resumes this year April 23-24 BYU's traditional spring sports festival, the Invitational Track and Field Meet, will be resumed this spring after a one-year layoff while the Cougars' Cou-gars' stadium was under construction. con-struction. Dates for this year's program, pro-gram, the 52nd since the first Invitational was started at BYU half a century ago, will be April 23-24. Plans for the big event were announced by Floyd Millet, Cougar athletic director who will chairman the meet. Invitations are being mailed to all high school and junior colleges within 350 miles of Provo, Millet said. More than 2,000 participants from Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and Colorado will compete in three main divisions: junior high, high school and junior college. While the main attractions will be the track and field events, the sports competition will include tennis, golf and precision marching. Last year because of the fact there was no site for track and field the meet was limited to phases of golf and tennis. Now, however, BYU is ready for a full-scale running of the Invitational. The meet will actually get under way April 22 with junior high school tennis. Junior high track and field will be staged Friday morning and1 high school track and field that afternoon. af-ternoon. High school and junior jun-ior college finals are scheduled for Saturday. High school and junior col-' col-' lege tennis will be Friday and Saturday, and the high school ; golf will be held at Timpan-; Timpan-; ogos course Friday afternoon. |