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Show BYU Invitational Track and Field Meet underway this week Take a bumper crop of athletes, ath-letes, nuture them under the warm spring sun, put them on an all-weather track, and the result will very likely be a flock of new records. Such are the prospects for ; the 53rd annual Invitational ) Meet scheduled this weekend at Brigham Young University. Track, golf, tennis and girls' pep clubs on review will be j spread over a three-day sched- ule starting today, Thursday. The tempo of things athletic will increase until more than 3,000 young athletes from Utah and four surrounding states have had a chance to show their wares. Junior high school contestants contes-tants will dominate the scene on Thursday, the high school performers will get into the act beginning Friday, and the finals involving high school and junior college talent will take place Saturday. There were some years in past Invitationals when the only on-ly record set was the amount of snow or water that covered the cinder track. But things may have changed; at least officials are hoping that con- ditions will be right for a major ma-jor assault on the records. Several factors seem to favor fa-vor this year's event. For one, the track and field phase of the meet will be held in the Cougar's new stadium. The running events will be staged on the Y all-weather track which can carry the runoff of a normal amount of rain. For another, the meet is being be-ing held later than at any time in its modern history the first week in May. Chances are that the weather, which should be warmer, will be a definite break for the participants. At last yea's Invitational, with good weather conditions, the high school and junior college col-lege athletes set 11 new records. rec-ords. The junior colleges rewrote re-wrote five new track and field records, while the class "A" high schools were chalking up an even half dozen new marks. Oddly enough, the c lass "B" high schools didn't have one entry for the '65 record book. The junior high .schools, too, were blanked in the record department. |