Repository: UIHistories Project: Magazine - Illinois Magazine Selections #3 (1917) [PAGE 10]

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I HE ILLINOIS MAGAZINE

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I LARRIMER "If ii >r the state of Iowa, [llinoit v. ildn't hav< i team this j ir." Zuppke EM ho :

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TRACK In no oilier branch ol* athletics has Illinoi- \) n =0 directly affected ^y the war 5 as in track. The enlistment of Captainpink, iiu led. and Bennett broke up of the great< I point-gaining monop( ich 'iill ha ever produced. pink was 01 a• of the be ' quarter and haJ; miler in the We t, and a consis nt gainer for [llino "Phil" was d captain of the 1917 team at ih i I; ' <•;: on, and < e under land lad lared a tru< with Chicago For the riod of tinr. 'ila elimination of Arlie" Mucks left Ifu ted with a el r Id on th< itr ol th< t discus thrower

in the \V< I. Ilennett v handy v tl * weights, and was a d rn ning < r every m 1. < A nucleus of a t( mi, houever, 1 from last year, and (loach •. dl hi

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Spink could not return I > "( 1 Kriedler was eh- en t > pilot th< < Gill Is relying on Kriedler and H h I annex the hurdle event l!i a thin i pec ted from Hi tnd h< ihould