Hurdlers (c. 1915-1918)
Item Information
- Title:
- Hurdlers (c. 1915-1918)
- Description:
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This lantern slide shows four hurdlers captured in various stages of jumping during an athletic meet at Pratt Field, located at the International YMCA College (now Springfield College).
- Creator:
- The Association
- Date:
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[1915?–1918?]
- Format:
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Photographs
- Location:
- Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
- Collection (local):
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College Archives Digital Collections
- Series:
- Lantern Slide Collection
- Subjects:
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Pratt Field
Springfield College
Springfield College--Track and field
Springfield College--Track and field--Men
International Young Men's Christian Association College
Springfield College--Sports
Springfield College--Sports--Men
Springfield College--Athletic Fields
Springfield (Mass.)
Lantern slides
Hurdle racing
Athletic fields
Track athletics
- Places:
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Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
- Extent:
- 3.25x3.25 in
- Link to Item:
- http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/3696
- Terms of Use:
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Text and images are owned, held, or licensed by Springfield College and are available for personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that ownership is properly cited. A credit line is required and should read: Courtesy of Springfield College, Babson Library, Archives and Special Collections. Any commercial use without written permission from Springfield College is strictly prohibited. Other individuals or entities other than, and in addition to, Springfield College may also own copyrights and other propriety rights. The publishing, exhibiting, or broadcasting party assumes all responsibility for clearing reproduction rights and for any infringement of United States copyright law.
Contact host institution for more information.
- Publisher:
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Springfield College
- Notes:
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The spring of 1915 marked Springfield College’s entry into intercollegiate competition; previously, they “had been denied the privilege of competing” (Massasoit, 1920). In 1917, Dr. Donald Young, then a professor of biology at Springfield, suggested an annual track meet for colleges in the Connecticut valley. On May 11, 1918, the first meet of the Connecticut Valley teams (later known as the Eastern Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association) took place; the race featured Holy Cross, Trinity, Rensselaer Polytech, Springfield, and Dartmouth. Although older records indicate the race pictured is part of the New England Intercollegiate Meet, Springfield was not admitted into that competition until 1932. Pratt Field originally consisted of a quarter mile track, a 220-yard straightaway, eleven jumping pits, space for weight throwing, seven tennis courts, a football field, and a baseball diamond. An eight-foot-high reinforced concrete fence surrounded the field, which formally opened in the fall of 1910, in connection with a football game. The grandstand was not built until 1911 and could hold 1,200 people. Beneath the structure were storage rooms, a massage room, a dressing room, showers, lockers, bathrooms, a ticket office, and a check room. For more information, see Elmer Berry's "The Pratt Athletic Field" (The Association Seminar, vol. 19 no. 9, June 1911).
Text on border reads, "High Hurdles 1914, Intercollegiate Meet Pratt Field."
- Identifier:
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LS-03-35