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Show : WAR IAS EFFECT ON ATHLETICS NEW YORK, May 26. No better illustration il-lustration of tho effect of the war up-, up-, on college athletics can be cited than la contained in the announcement that the intercollegiate track and field championships, even In the form of patriotic pa-triotic games, have been abandoned. Not since the initial meet In 1876 has there been a break In these national titular contests. Now, after a period of forty-one years, the season of 1917 will be blank in the records and his-tory his-tory of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America. No other form of college nthletics or sports has ever had such a broad and continuous record In Its own particular par-ticular field of activity in this coun-try. coun-try. For this reason, if no other, the devotee of track and field competition has been hoping against hope that the games would be continued, even though in a curtailed manner, for the present season at least. In order to appreciate the record of consistency of the I. C. A. A. A., It is necessary to go back to July 21, 1876, when the first championship meet of tho association was held at Saratoga, N. Y., with Yale, Princeton, Pennsyli vania, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Columbia, Williams and City College of New York among tho competing Institutions. Institu-tions. Since that date forty-one meets have been held without a break at various var-ious points in the'east, including New York, Philadelphia and Cambridge. During this period thirty-seven colleges col-leges or universities have been repre- bcuicu uy uuiitiicb wxiu nave won at ' least one place or point. The list includes in-cludes almost every institution of the East, Michigan, of the Middle West and California and Stanford of the Pacific Coast While it Is impossible to state with accuracy the number of athlotes who have striven for track and field honors hon-ors in these meets It is estimated that the total would run into many thousands. thous-ands. In championships won Harvard leads with thirteen; Yale ia second with nine; Pennsylvania third with eight; Cornell fourth with seven; Columbia Co-lumbia fifth with three, and Princeton Prince-ton last with one; the Tigers taking the first meet in 1876. |