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Show Training Gets Underway as Track Squad Aims at Third Conference Championship With the weather showing a few signs or warming up Coach Murray Maughan has started to put his Branch Agricultural college track and field squad through strenuous drills In preparation for coming meets. The Bronco squad will be striving to bring back the third consecutive con-secutive Intennountain Junior College Col-lege Conference championship. Last year Coach Maughan's Broncos Bron-cos rolled up a total of 101 14 points in the conference meet, the highest point total ever scored by an Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Jaycec team. The Weber college Wildcats, who ran up 50 points to win the conference title a few years back, hold the nearest record to the mark set last year by B. A. C. A number of boys who helped roll up the 101 points are back again this year to give their all for the Bronco cause. Three of these men will be ahootlng at conference con-ference records. Dan Lindsay will try to break the high Jump record of S feet 1 34 inches which he set at the meet last year. Bunny Fullmer Full-mer last year tied the 100 yard dash murk with a time of 10.1 seconds. Udell Smith, Javelin heaver, was only two feet short of a conference mark when he threw the stick 183 feet. Besides the high Jump, Lindsay Lind-say runs the high and low hurdles, Bunny pole vaults and runs the 220 and Udell also high Jumps. Other members of last year's team who are back again this year are: Don Dee Seaman, high Jump; Dale Roberts, pole vault and high Jump; Dahl Oleave, discus and shot put; Joe Beckstrand, high Jump, Javelin and 440 yard dash; Oordon Beckstrand, 220 and 440 yard dashes; dash-es; Ray Sabln, distance races; Bruce Burr. 880 yard run, discus and Javelin; Lynn Nielson, low hurdles; Charles Jensen, low hurdles; Boyd Rollins, mile run; Bill Bell, pole vault; and Oary Jones, pole vault. Some of the new men who have made good marks in high school or other meets are Pat Llndsey, hurdles, hur-dles, high Jump and 440; Bob Now-ers, Now-ers, pole vault and broad Jump; Bob Peterson, 880 yard run; Clark Mathews, weights, who was on the championship team two years ago. DelMar Janson, distance races; Dixie Dix-ie Leavltt, weights; EJrew Halght, weights; Darwin Woodbury, pole vault and low hurdles, and Nyles Humphcrys in the hurdles and high Jump. Several other men are out who will bo. fighting to take the conference chamulonshlo this year. Coach Maughan's track men will compete in five different meets this year with the first one the Invitational Invita-tional Relay meet at Hurricane on April 17. The next Invitation is to the B. Y. U. Relays which will be held on April 23 and 24. Several of the outstanding men on the team will travel to Phoenix, Arizona on the 6th and 7th of May to compete In the National Junior College Track and Field meet. The Bronco squad, the only team from the Intermountaln conference to be Invited to the national meet, will probably send five or six men to participate. In the past senior colleges have sponsored the conference meets of the Junior colleges and it Wis left very little for the sport fans and not much glory for teams participating. partici-pating. This year it hasbeen decided de-cided to break away from this idea and let the Junior colleges sponsor their own meets. The Intermountaln Junior College conference meet will be held at the B. A. C. on May 14. The meet will be held at night under the lights and should be one of the big sports events of the year. |