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Show College track and field meets will climax with NCAA finals College track and field, which has been gaining momentum mo-mentum since its start several months ago, will reach a gigantic gi-gantic climax in Provo next month in tie NCCA finals at BYU Stadium. Brigham Young University, a team that placed second in the national meet last year in Bloomington, Ind., will host the three-day meet beginning June 15. An estimated 400 athletes ath-letes from 150 colleges and universities uni-versities will be participating in the meet. "This has got to be the biggest big-gest thing of its kind in sports this year," said Floyd Millet, Cougar director of athletics who is chairman of the games committee. "There hasn't been a greater great-er field of track and field stars in the college ranks in the history of the NCAA," he continued, con-tinued, "and I'll be very much surprised if some records national and world aren't broken before the meet is over." ov-er." Although the Cougars are sporting one of their better teams, they may have to be ranked among the also-rans when confronted with some of the track powers coming to Provo for the meet. UCLA, the defending cham-. pion is ranked as the team to beat, although Oregon walked off with the AAUW title last week and must, therefore, be listed as the chief contender. Another perennial track power, USC, also figures in the running, run-ning, along with San Jose State. The games committee for the meet, mostlv BYU personnel. have been working on arrangements arrange-ments for the meet for many months. All the teams, officials and camp followers are expected expect-ed to invade Provo and Utah County the Monday before the meet, June 12. |