Sport: Stanford in Philadelphia

For a Stanford Junior to win the British Amateur Golf Championship was a novelty last week (see above). The prospect of a Stanford track team winning the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America championship was nothing of the sort. California teams had won for nine consecutive years. When Southern California decided not to send a team to Philadelphia last week, Stanford's Coach Dink Templeton felt that a "skeleton" team of seven Stanford men would be enough to take 35 points and title against some 600 of the best athletes in the U....

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