A Cross Country Team member and coach talking to each other

Individual photos of track and field team members grouped. Names, top row: J. Harvey (100 - 200 yards, hurdles, relay); W. Maguire (broad jump, quarter mile, relay). Third row: F. Brady (shot, hammer, javelin); D. Cook (high jump). Second row: R. Lee (discus, javelin); C. Armit (hurdles, relay); J. Klinck (shot, hammer, discus). Front row: E.W. Griffiths (coach); David Kirkbride (pole vault, relay), H. McMahon (half mile, mile, three mile), G. McCallum (mgr.), Western Inter-Collegiate champions.

Running competition in Saskatoon Arena as a crowd watches.

The finish of the men's 220 yard dash. A crowd watches along the track side as runners approach the finish line at Inter-University track and field meet.

University of Saskatchewan first women's sprinting race.

Member of the Track and Field team B. Hanson in uniform.

Con Armit member of the Medicine track team and Western Intercollegiate Champion. Relay team broke the record for the year.

An unidentified male athlete takes a jump as spectators line the landing pit [at Griffiths Stadium at dusk].

Unidentified male athlete clearing the bar at Griffiths Stadium. Spectators and trees in background; Hangar Building at right.

University of Saskatchewan Huskies Ladies track team, group photo: Standing: E. Lewis, M. Vincent, L. Haslam, D. Locke, E. Vanderburgh, Miss Cartwright, Front: E. Loughridge, R. Goodfellow, M. Wheelock, J. McKay.

Track and field event at the Western Canada Summer Games.

Team/Group photograph of the 1st Canadian Division Track and Field Team, Champions of the Canadian Forces Meet which took place in Aldershot, England on August 23, 1941.

A Cross Country Team member

The finish of a running race [sprint.] Six unidentified participants run to the finish line as a crowd looks on.

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.