Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1911 — NATIONAL RULES FOR TRACK SPORTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NATIONAL RULES FOR TRACK SPORTS

National rules in track sports as well as in football are available for the colleges and universities of the country. A movement to unify the government of American intercollegiate track and field meets was announced by Coach A. A. Stagg of the University of Chicago, who is one of the authors of a new code of laws sanctioned by the Intercollegiate Athletic association of the United States. Stagg made public the complete text of the rules drafted by himself. Prof. W. A. Lambert of the University of Virginia and F. W. Marvel of Brown university, acting for the National association. The rules are embodied in the report of the professors have been accepted by the association and are now subject to the inspection of the American colleges. The code, whichTs the first of h national character, is Intended as the

first step toward national uniformity and in no way compulsory. The officials, however, hope that It will be adopted by the various sectional bodies or Incorporated Into their own rules. "Ultimate uniformity" Is the atlsh of the committee, according to Stagg. The rules do not radically from any of those in existence except in the case of the high jump and pole vault. Intead of allowing the customary three trials at each height, the committee provides that two trials only may be bad.

Coach A. A. Stagg of Chicago.