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.

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

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.

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.

A group of students posing for a group picture with track and field equipment at their feet. Thornton School can be seen in the background

Team members of the Cross Country Team posing for a group photograph

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.

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

Individual photographs of team members grouped. Inter-Collegiate champion track team members, Names: A. Moses (javelin); J. Mitchell .(relay), B. Wylie (pole vault, high jump); J. Cram (1 mile, 3 mile); K. McLeod (high jump), T. Rackham (hurdles), D. Cameron (100, 220 yards, low hurdles, relay), Bob Rowed (quarter, half, mile); David Kirkbride (100, 220 yards, hurdles, pole vault, relay); Paul Lanz (javelin); G. Thrall (broad jump); J. Charnetski .(shot put, hammer, discus); William (Bill) Denton (relay); B. Hanson (half mile, 3 mile), J. Klinck (discus, shot put, hammer); Joe Griffiths coach); Gil Watson (mgr).

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].

An unidentified male athlete throwing a discus; pectators in bleachers in background at [Griffiths Stadium].

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

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.