Project Editor: Bryce Rowell, English 418/818, Fall 2005

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RECORDS ARE SMASHED

SID COLLINS' RECORD IN SHOT
PUT BROKEN BY
A GIRL.

An innovation in university athletics, something new and decidedly unique, was pulled off yesterday on Nebraska Field. It was a track meet for women only. Members of the girls' gymnasium classes participated, and under the direction of Miss Gittings several startling events took place. The starts of Art May, the dashes of Guy Reed, and the hurdling of Dick Russell were put far in the shade by the feats of the fair co-ed athletes. No results from this interesting track meet were turned in to the Nebraskan office, and as the paper boasts of no feminine reportress, no representatives were on the field. Not the absence of tall trees in the vicinity of the field, but the modesty of the staff prevented the viewing the contest; besides, the rules against the admittance of men were strictly enforced. Definite information, however, was obtained to the effect that there was a meet and somebody won.

Preparations have been going on and this event will probably become an annual feature of the girls' gymnasium work. The events carried out were the short dashes, high jump, broad jump, low hurdles, high hurdles and weight throwing. It is understood that the records held by Sidney Collins were shaved, but the weight of the shot used is unknown. To cap the climax and to show woman's sphere is not limited to the home alone, a baseball game took place, in which the Scarlets were pitted against the Creams. After a five-inning pitchers' battle the Scarlets were adjudged the victors, because the score keeper got tired and went home, making it necessary to to call the game.

Reports on both the meet and the game are unofficial as they were handed to a Nebraskan reporter by a prominent university student who was dislodged from a choice crack in the fence and dragged protesting away by a burly policeman.