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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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Student Organizations and Activities 183 different sports were as follows: Basket-ball 530, baseball 500, track 400, football 75, and swimming 300. Intercollegiate competition is maintained with each of the other universities of the Western Conference, namely, Chicago, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio, Purdue and Wisconsin. Practise games are held annually with smaller colleges also. It is the general belief at the University of Illinois that intercollegiate athletics can be maintained without interference with the intellectual interests of the general student body; while so far as the contestants themselves are concerned, whatever has been acquired in the way of physical powers and moral training finds its surest test in the intercollegiate game. Illinois athletes made an enviable record during the years from 1904 to 1920. Of 116 football games played, Illinois won 82, lost 26 and tied in 8. In 1910 Illinois not only won every game played but was not scored on thruout the season. Illinois won the Conference football championship in 1910, 1914, 1918, and 1919, and tied for first place with Minnesota in 1915. From 1905 to 1920, 221 games of baseball were played, of which Illinois won 161 and lost 55, while five games resulted in a tie. The Conference championship in baseball was won by Illinois in 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1915, and 1916, and in 1909 Illinois tied with Purdue for the championship. Of 214 games of basket-ball played, Illinois won 128 and lost 86. In the season of 1914-15 Illinois won the Conference championship in basketball, not losing a game. Illinois tied with Northwestern for second place in 1916, and with Minnesota for the Conference championship in 1917. Illinois track teams won 37 outdoor dual meets from 1905 to 1920, losing 7 and tying 1. They won 26 indoor dual meets, lost 6 and tied 1. They won the Conference outdoor meet four times, and in two other years led the Conference universities when an outside team won first place. Of 9 Conference indoor meets held, Illinois won 4 and lost another by one-fourth of a point. Illinois teams won the St. Louis annual meet in 1909, the one-mile championship of America in the Pennsylvania Relay Races in 1913, the twomile championship of America in the same series in 1914, the
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