$EPTEMBER 24, 1935
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THE MTCTTI4~N DAILY
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hItramural Orientation Week Sports Program Begins
Today
Ass Of 193
WiilInspeCt
1- FacilitieS
T urneys Planned In Golf
Srooting and Swmmu "
18 Sports Are Offered
Vreshmnai Grid Candidates
To Report To Coch Ray
Fisher Sept. 30th
By RAYMOND GOODMAN
The Intramural Department's an
nual Orientation Week athletic pro-
gram, featuring a diversified schedule
of 18 sports, will swing into action at
4:30 p.m. today, when the freshmen
groups will start a tour through the
largest Intramural plant in the world.
The tour will continue through
Thursday.
Opportunity for active competition
with fellow freshmen will be afforded
the first year men in bowling, golf,
handball, horseshoes, rifle shooting,
swimming, tennis, and volleyball. In
boxing, codeball, cross-country, fenc-
ing, gymnastics, Sigma Delta Psi, and
squash instruction will be oered as
well as a chance to meet others in-
terested in these sports.. Men desir-
ing to report for freshman football
and wrestling will find this included
in the schedule.
Golfers Get Chance
The tennis singles tournament will
take place at 1:00 p.m. Saturday and
will provide excellent practice for
the fall All-Campus meet which will
begin soon after the opening of
school. Tryouts for the Freshman
tennis squad are advised to see Coach
Johnstone immediately.
At the same date and hour which
marks the opening of the tennis
matches, golf enthusiasts will meet
at the University course ready for
18 holes of medal play in the Orien-
tation week matches. Players will be
required to pay the usual student
green fee of $.50.
The Michigan Union alleys will be
the scene of the bowling tournament.
Freshmen desiring may report at the
Ujrion at any time during the week
and roll two games for a total score.
BQwling will be free to everyone dur-
ing the opening week.
Swim Finals Thursday
The swimming meets, which will be
held at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday at the Intramural pool,
have always thrown some light on
the freshman team in the past and
this year should prove no exception.
First and second place winners in
each event on Tuesday and Wed-
nesday will meet on the final day to
determine the ultimate winners.
Freshman football candidates will
report to Coach Ray Fisher at the
Yost Field house, Monday, Septem-
ber 30th at 3:00 p.m. Uniforms will
be distributed at this time and as-
pirants will be put through a light
drill.
Morrison Tcnnis Winner
Last year's Orientation Week win-
ners in the tournaments were Mor-
ison, tennis; Ransom, badminton;
Alexander, bowling; Van Winkle,
golf; Speicher, handball and squash;
and W. R. Crow, rifle shooting. In
the swimming meet Polatin, R.
Young, J. Young, Frederick, and
Cheetham were winners in the five
events.
Students desiring a more detailed
account of the program should con-
sult the Orientation Week handbook
which can be obtained at the I-M
offices.
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Largest Intramural Athletic Plant In The World
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I-M Program
D ivided Into
Three Goups
All Students Given Chance
To Participate In The
Year's Activities
Following the general plan that
has been in use in the past few years,
the Intramural Department will
divide its participation program for
the student body into three classes:
Independent, Interfraternity, and
All-Campus.
In addition there will be the usual
Faculty and Cosmopolitan competi-
tion. This diversified program gives,
everyone opportunity for organized
athletic play as well as informal par-
ticipation in the sport of his choice.
For the organized men the frater-
nity will, as usual, be the pivot point
around which all of the Interfra-
ternity schedule will center. The
feature of this section is team-play,
all of the sports following the tourney
plan with points being awarded to
the house instead of the individual.
Of major importance in this section
is the All-Year Championship which
was won by Alpha Omega, scoring
1007 points, in the 1934-35 season.
The Independent division will fol-
low along the same lines as the Fra-
ternity, being based on the tourna-
ment plan and team play. Last year
34 teams entered and competed for
title, the D.D.'s piling up a total of 811
points to win. Every student rated
in the Independent class is eligible to
join "one of the teams or organize a
new team should he wish. Each year
a large number enjoy organized team
competition through this medium.
Has No Restrictions
The All-Campus sports program is
not subject to any such restrictions
and is basically for the individual,
tourneys being held in all of the
sports in which teams are not neces-
sary. Many All-Campus winners in
events boasting Varsity squads have
later found their way to these squads.
This has proved especially so in the
case of the tennis, wrestling, golf, icey
hockey and swimming tourneys.
Every year the Intramural De-
partment has drawn more students.
Last year 7,500 men took part in
Director Of I-M
ELMER D. MITCHELL
some competitive sport. This was
more than 70% of the student body.~
An even greater turnout is expected
this year by the officials with the
larger enrollment and more attrac-
tive program.
RIFLE TO BE GIVEN
In addition to the ribbons awarded
by the Intramural Department the
R.O.T.C. will give a Krag .30 calibre'
rifle to the man making the highet
score in the rifle shooting competi-
tion. Those wishing to enter should
report to the officer in charge on
Ferry Field immediately after the
tour of inspection is completed.
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The erection of the Intramural Sports Building is the outstanding event in the history of the Intramural
Department. The greatly enlarged facilities that it offered made it possible to expand the I-M program until
now the University of Michigan boasts the largest Intramural athletic plant in the world.
The main gymnasium, on which floor there are four basketball courts, is 252 feet long and 107 feet wide.
The building includes 14 four-wale'd handball courts, 13.squash courts, a wrestling room, a boxing room,
the swimmipig pool, 75 feet long by 35 feet wide}, and the auxiliary gymnasium, 96 feet long by 45 feet wide.
The wall between the auxiliary gym and the swimming pool is provided with lifts which raise it out of sight
and bleachers seating 1,500 can be set up for the swimming meets.
Intramural Department Boasted Only
13 Sports At Foundaing Has 34 -Now
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I At the opening of the 1913-14 school'
year the Intramural Department was
established as a branch of the Ath-
letic Association, headed by Mr. Floyd
Rowe and featuring a program of 13
sports.
This was the small beginning out
of which has grown the largest In-
tramural plant in the world, boasting
an Intramural Sports Building con-
taining almost every conceivable fa-
cility for indoor sport and recreation
and a program of 31 sports, the result
of much experience and, development.
Dissolved in 1917
The department continued in its
original form until 1917 when the
World War brought about its tem-
porary dissolution, its work being
continued by the S.A.T.C. in a mod-
ified form.
The war caused great public in-
terest in sports and at its conclusion
the Intramural Department, which
brought athletic participation not
only to the trained athlete but also
to the athletically minded student,
had taken on an added importance
which its founders, at the time of its
inception had hoped might come to
it.
In 1919-20 the department was re-
organized, headed by Elmer D. Mit-
chell, who has held the position of Di-
rector ever since. The next year the
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I-M was transferred from the Ath-
letic Association, which continued,
however, to allow the department to
use Ferry Field and its equipment,
to the Division of Hygiene, Public
Health, and Physical Education.
Great Strides Made
The erection of Yost Field House
and the founding of the Athletic
Board of Control both proved to be
mile stones in the history of the I-M,
one providing badly needed room and
the other a more ambitious sched-
ule, but it was the construction of the
Intramural Sports Building that
marks the greatest step forward.
The new building made possible a
vastly improved program, making
available greatly enlarged facilities
for swimming, baskqetball, boxing,
wrestling, fencing, handball, squash,
indoor :baseball, volleyball, indootr
golf, water polo, badminton, and ten-
nis. In addition locker room space
for 4,000 men was provided.
Each year the number making use
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of the Intramural Building has grown
until last year the total reached ap-
proximately 7,500. Officials attrib-
ute this growth to three causes: the
depression, the large enrollment in-
crease, and the growing interest and
desire to participate actively in ath-
letics. However, to a large degree
the increase can be traced to the very
capable staff assisting Director Mit-
chell. Assistant Director Earl Riskey,
Supervisors of Sports Abram A.
James, Randolph Webster, and In-
structors Ernest Smith, John John-
stone, and Harold Copp have filled
their positions capably, the splendid
record of the past few years speaking
for their successes.
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