- A-970
- Item
- [ca. 1948]
The finish of a running race [sprint.] Six unidentified participants run to the finish line as a crowd looks on.
The finish of a running race [sprint.] Six unidentified participants run to the finish line as a crowd looks on.
Part of City of Regina fonds
Track and field event at the Western Canada Summer Games.
The Track Squad in Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Two small inset photos have members of the high school track and field team posing for group photographs. There are two illustrations at the bottom of the page
The Cross Country Team in Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Team members of the Cross Country Team posing for a group photograph
The Cross Country Team in Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Team members of the Cross Country Team posing for a group photograph
Four unidentified men break from starting blocks in a track race.
Unidentified male athlete clearing the bar at Griffiths Stadium. Spectators and trees in background; Hangar Building at right.
Men's Discus Throwing - Action
An unidentified male athlete throwing a discus; pectators in bleachers in background at [Griffiths Stadium].
Louis Tapper - Track and Field
Studio portrait of Louis Tapper, BEd'77, BComm'82, sprinter and relay runner.
Joe Griffiths and Orvald Gratias
Joe Griffiths, coach of the track and field team, and Orvald Gratias, captain of the team, stand outside a tent.
Bio/Historical Note: Orvald Arthur Gratias, a native of Kinistino, Saskatchewan, enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan (BSc ‘28; MSc ‘30) in 1925. During his five years on campus he competed in basketball, football and track & field. He excelled in discus and hammer throw and was captain of the track & field team in 1930. In 1928, the Sheaf named him Saskatchewan's most versatile athlete. Joe Griffiths later described Gratias as one of the greatest all-around athletes to wear the green and white. He received a Major Athletic Award in 1930. Gratias was president of the University Athletic Directorate and went on to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, studying particle physics. Gratias parlayed an MBA into a second career as a research analyst with the Montreal blue-chip firm MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier, specializing in market movements. Gratias died on 23 July 1996 in Ottawa at age 87.
Joanne McTaggart - Presentation
Joanne McTaggart, second-year Physical Education student and Huskie track and field sprinter, presented with flowers after breaking the world indoor record for the women's 300 meters at a CWUAA (CIS) meet in Edmonton, Alberta. At far left is R.W. Begg, University President; second from left is Lyle Sanderson, Huskie track and field coach. Winter scene; taken in front of Physical Education Building.
Bio/Historical Note: Joanne McTaggart, indisputably one of Canada’s premier runners of the 1970s, was born in Regina in 1954. She moved to Saskatoon for Grade XI and graduated from Walter Murray Collegiate, where she once won five events at the school meet. McTaggart also started to compete on behalf of the Saskatoon Track and Field Club. She was named to Canada’s national track team in 1972 while in Grade XI. She qualified for the relay team at the 1972 Munich Olympics but Canada didn't send a team. McTaggart enrolled at University of Saskatchewan (B.Ed. 1977) in 1974. In her rookie year with the Huskies, she won conference championships in the 40 yards and 300 metres. That same year she was Western Canadian Junior Champion in the 50 and 200 metres and the Canadian senior indoor 200 champion. McTaggart won 10 conference titles in her four years with the Huskies, highlighted by a world record performance of 38.2 seconds in the 300 metres at the 1975 indoor CWUAA (CIS) meet in Edmonton, Alberta. McTaggart qualified for the Canadian team at the 1975 Pan-American Games, won a bronze medal in the 4x100-metre relay and half an hour later, was invited to run the 4x400-metre relay where Canada held off the Americans and the Cubans to win the gold medal. At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Joanne competed in the 200 metres and finished fourth in the 4X100-metre relay. McTaggart was inducted into the University of Saskatchewan Athletic Wall of Fame in 1984; the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame in 1994, and the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1996.
Gil Watson Memorial Annual Torch Race
Joe Griffiths firing the starting pistol to start the Gil Watson Annual Torch race at "Griffiths' Rally," part of annual Frosh Week activities. Four unidentified male racers crouch holding torches.
First Saskatchewan University Track Team - Group Photo
First University of Saskatchewan men's track team members, back row (l to r): R.H. MacDonald, J.L. Malcolm, Harold V. Mighton, William Exton Lloyd. Front: J.F. Cairns (donor of trophy), Prof. Reginald Bateman (honourary president [trainer].
This is Doug McGillivray’s “Memory Lane” sports collection. It is a compilation of newspaper and magazine clippings of sporting events from 1904-1993. The sporting events include: horse racing, golf, collegiate sports, boxing, wrestling, soccer, ladies and men’s softball, Western Hockey Association (W.H.A.) hockey, track and field, basketball, old-timer hockey and National Hockey League (N.H.L.) hockey. The clippings are mounted on coloured bristol board.
McGillivray, Doug
College of Arts and Science - Men's Track and Field Team
Image of men's track and field team, point winners. Names: John Ross MacPherson, Frederick James Fife, Peter George Makaroff, Donald Sutherland MacMurchy, Reuben John Haney, Ernest L. Spencer, Frederick J. Freer, Wilfred Louis Cushing. The [Cairns Cup] is on a stool at centre.