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.

Posed indoor photo of men's track team members. Names: Joe Griffiths (coach), E.C. Carr, Clarence Edmund Maguire, H. Sharpe, Edward Hubert Mapleton Knowles, W..J. McLeod, William P. McLean, Charles W. (Charlie) McCool (mgr), Alfred Leroy Paine, William Charles Broadfoot, R.C. Russell, A.V. Svoboda, Percy Hathaway Maguire (capt), William Whittaker, Stafford Zimmerman Bennett, Arthur E. Drew, Drayton Ernest Walker.

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.

Studio portrait of Louis Tapper, BEd'77, BComm'82, sprinter and relay runner.

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.

Unidentified male participants (all wearing shorts) at various stages of the race; winter scene.

University of Saskatchewan first women's sprinting race.

Four unidentified men break from starting blocks in a track 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.

Val Anderson winning the men's 100 yard dash. People sitting on the bleachers, buildings in the background.

J.B. (Bal) Kirkpatrick clearing the high jump bar at [Griffiths Stadium].

Bio/Historical Note: James Balfour Kirkpatrick (1909-1998), a graduate of Bedford Road Collegiate in Saskatoon, enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan (BA 1929; BEd 1930; MEd 1935) in 1926. Under the tutelage of Joe Griffiths, Kirkpatrick became one of Saskatchewan's premier track & field athletes as a thrower and jumper. He held provincial records in the 1930s in high jump and shot put. In the first ever Canadian championships in 1938 at Griffiths Stadium, Kirkpatrick finished second in high jump and third in three throwing events. Kirkpatrick, who was 6-3, developed his basketball skills in the "ham and egg league" that Griffiths introduced on campus in 1924 for raw recruits, progressed to interfaculty competition and eventually earned a starting position on the Huskies. He played on the Saskatoon Grads, who won the provincial senior men's title in 1939-1940. Kirkpatrick was also a member of the Huskies tennis team in 1934 and in 1937 captured the provincial men's singles title. He went on to serve as director of the Saskatchewan Recreation Movement and laid the groundwork for the establishment of the Saskatchewan High School Athletic Association. Kirkpatrick was named Saskatoon Kinsmen Sportsman of the Year in 1983 and was inducted as a builder into the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame in 1986 and into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1990.

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.

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.

Team member Clayt Crosby posing with a javelin.

Bio/Historical Note: Clayton (Clayt) Crosby was a member of the Western Intercollegiate Championship winning team in 1933, capturing the Cairns Trophy. He competed in the broad jump and relay team.

Running competition in Saskatoon Arena as a crowd watches.