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Caption: Dedication - Memorial Stadium Drive Book #2
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THE SPURTING TURF THE HURTLING JAVEL1N.THE SPINNING DISCUS - A N D HARRY GILL T doesn't matter very much whether we seem to have phenomenal track men or not, so long as we have with us Harry Gill. Out of gasping novices he seems to make consistent winners of first place, out of straining youngsters he seems to make leaping wonders, out of big, bulky slow-moving young giants he seems to make the source from which a heavy discus spins and swirls across great distances or from which the long, slender javelin seems to vibrate amazingly through the air. Avery Brundage, three times the all-around champion of America; Billy May, who still holds many dash records; Jack Case of the 1912 Olympics, and Fred Henderson, who holds our 880-yard record, are some of his outstanding achievements. But teams are his specialty rather than individuals, and victories rather than startling single records. So, Harry L: Gill in spite of the fact t h a t Illinois has its share of individual record-breakers, we have won, since Harry Gill came here in 1906, 67 dual meets out of 73. We have won the Big Ten Outdoor Conference meet 5 times in 14 years and the Indoor Intercollegiate 4 out of 10 times. THE SECRET OF OUR SUPERIORITY IN BASEBALL VERYBODYknew that some day there would be too many things for G. Huff to do. Everybody wondered where t h i s g r e a t e s t of all baseball coaches could find a successor. 220 won out of 299 games played is a precedent great enough to dishearten almost anyone. But Carl L. Lundgren, '02, ~s» who pitched for the Chicago Cubs, who was assistant coach at Princeton and who was head coach a t M i c h i g a n for seven Carl L. Lundgren, '02 years, stepped in and won a championship in his first yearbeautifully that it was hard to believe " G " wasn't there. : I E k 1921—so "Lundy" began with an inexperienced squad of players and developed three excellent pitchers. He taught his team how to bat, how to field, how to run, and, best of all, how to think. Out of 12 Conference games we lost only one, and always in a crisis our team showed power and coolness and the fighting Illini spirit. With the school which has the tradition of men like " J a k e " Stahl, Billy Fulton, " R e d " Gunkel, ""V "" Grant Beadle, "Shorty" Righter, John Busick and Frank Pfeffer as baseball stars, any new coach is facing an apparently insurmountable wall to establish a reputation for himself; yet today we have already figures like Otto Good old "Jake" Stahl, who Vogel and Harry McCurdy, and , „,.„-, p , wir has never forgotten that he is an Illini . J "Mike" Mason, '16 who beat Joie Ray in the mile Fred(Alabam) Henderson, "14., our 880-yard record-holder Bob Emery, '20 holds Illinois record for the 4.4.0 Billy May, '00, one of our greatest dash men ' Wilham J. (Billy) Fulton, tomorrow is a glowing promise. ^ . 2 ^ ^ ^
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