University of Arkansas Monticello - Boll Weevil Yearbook (Monticello, AR)

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Weare Coach Harry Denson’s track team suffered from the same ailment that so obviously plagued Harold Tilley’s gridiron squad — they began the year with a severe senior deficiency. The situation was somewhat bleak in the case of the track team. Denson’s squad included one senior, one junior, five sophomores and fifteen freshmen, so in two years, watch out AlC —here. comes a predominantly junior senior squad. 188 Track RIGHT AND BELOW: The track program consists of two major parts: the traditional track and field events on and within the oval, and cross-country, here preparing to run. OPPOSITE: Pole vaulting is as much a total effort as any other event. Lance Pelt dem- onstrates that it requires speed, strength and coordination.

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The optimistic 1983 out- 190 Track look did little to improve the 1981 outcome. The track team finished seventh in a field of ten, not bad considering their youth, but a far cry from last year’s second place finish. The cross-country team fared better. Through eight of the five mile events, they managed to come away with fourth place. Sherbert Phillips Was a consistent cross-country performer. His eighty-place finish in the AIC meet hosted by Ouachita placed him among the top ten, automatically qualifying him as a member of the All-AIC cross-country squad. While Phillips was busy collecting points in cross-country, another athlete was doing the same in the traditional track-and-field events. Greg Culp, a Springdale native, would have