Fifty Years of Progress 1880-1930

ATHLETICS IN THE SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES of London, have become champions, but the number of entrants and place-winners is large. In international teams the Universities have all pulled their weight, and in the Olympic Games at Amsterdam the Achilles Club alone supplied one-third of Britain's athletic team and Cambridge her two winners. It only remains to note the present relations between the University Clubs and the A.A.A. They are, of course, affiliated to the governing body and pay an annual subscription; otherwise they are independent, except for obtaining leave to compete abroad or entertain foreign teams. They possess seats and votes upon the several Committees of the A.A.A. and the administrative and legislative work of the Association has un– doubtely benefited by the collaboration of their representatives. One only wishes that, possessing as they do talents peculiarly adapted to the performance of such duties, more of the University men would seek election as ordinary members of these Committees and by the devotion of their leisure emulate the deeds of the men who in r 880 helped to found the A.A.A. 93