Sport: Track & Field

Top outdoor tests for college track & field athletes are the annual championships of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, held in New York City from 1877 to 1903. later shuttled between Cambridge and Philadelphia. Last week, after 34 years' absence, the I. C. 4-A returned to New York. The championships were held in the city's new Randalls Island Stadium.

Co-favorites to win the team title were Columbia, which last won the outdoor I. C. 4-A in 1879, and Pittsburgh, which never had won. Mainstays of both colleges were Negroes: Columbia's Captain...

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