Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

Review of the Season Not a single meet victory came home to roost with the 1936 Varsity track team but on the basis of individual performances the season was very far from being a failure. Led by Captain-elect Jack Irwin, Stan Medina, Pete Bradley and Bill Fackert, Coach Matty Geis ' s squad can show a very respectable account book: two all-time Princeton records set, one first place in the Penn Relays, two firsts in the Heptagonals, and the first IC4A title won by a Nassau cinderman since 1934. Insufficient practice because of the New Jersey spring rains hindered the team in its opening meet with Navy on April 18. The contest at Annapolis, incidentally, inaugurated track rela- tions with the Middies. Five Princeton firsts against the strong Navy team showed definite promise, but Captain Joe Patterson carried the sailors through to a 67-59 victory in the final events. Jack Irwin broke into the headlines a week later with a spectacular first place in the 400- meter hurdles in the Penn Relays. Hank duFlon was a step behind his teammate as he hit the tape. Ted Way ' s third in the broad jump was the Irwin Winning 220 Low Hurdles Agoinst Cornell. only other Tiger contribution to the two-day carnival. Cornell came to town on May 2 for the only home meet of the spring. With the feminine touch of a houseparty crowd to inspire them, the Big Red and Tiger trackmen smashed five meet records and staged a very exciting even if not very close meet. Bill Fackert hurtled out 24 ft. AVz in. to break his own University broad jump record by more than seven inches in the most brilliant single performance of the day. Jack Irwin won the low hurdles and took two seconds, while Stan Medina scored in the pole vault at 13 ft. 4 in. But Cornell swept the dash and dis- tance events to roll up an 81 > ^ to 53^ triumph. In the Heptagonals at Cambridge Pete Bradley gained revenge for his defeat by Cornell ' s half- miler Johnny Meaden the week before, slamming home in a sensational finish to nip Meaden by a foot. He hit the tape in 1 :53.5, only five-tenths of a second behind Bill Bonthron ' s all-time Univer- sity mark. Bradley ' s first was the only Tiger win as Jack Irwin nicked the last barrier in the low One Hundred Thirty-seven