after taking third place in 1899, she held the Championship
banner for five successive seasons, 1900 to 1904, and once more in 1906.
During this period the Varsity was also very generally winning dual
meets with Cornell, Wisconsin, and Illinois, though she lost to Chicago
in 1901 and 1902. Michigan also won the four-mile relay race at the
Pennsylvania Relay Meet for six successive years, 1903 to 1908, and made
the best record of any university entered in the track events scheduled
at the same time.

After 1906 the Eastern Inter-collegiate Meet necessarily came to hold
first place in the schedule, and here also Michigan always made a
creditable record though never succeeding in taking first place. The
team returned in 1907 with second honors, and then held third place for
five successive years, 1910 to 1914, with Pennsylvania, Yale, and
Cornell usually leading in different years. The Varsity fell behind,
however, in 1915 and 1916. Owing to war-time conditions no meets were
held in 1917, but Michigan's return to the Conference fold was marked by
two successive Western Championships in 1918 and 1919.

This long and honorable record in field sports has been made possible by
consistent encouragement of well-rounded teams in which all branches
were carefully developed, through the extraordinary ability of Keene
Fitzpatrick, perhaps the greatest athletic trainer and track coach in
the country. His acceptance of a similar position at Princeton in 1911
was a great loss to Michigan, where he had served for sixteen years.

As early as 1897 Michigan held several Western records. The first of
Michigan's all-round athletes was John F. McLean, '00, who not only won
regularly the hurdles and broad jump, equaling or bettering the Western
records, but was also half-back on the football team. Charles Dvorak,
'01, '04_l_, also held the Western record in the pole vault, while
Archie Hahn, '04_l_, speedily developed into one of the country's
greatest sprinters, equaling several times the world's record in the
100-yard dash of 9-4/5 seconds, which still stands. He returned to the
University in 1920 as trainer of the various athletic teams. Neil Snow
also completed in 1902 his remarkable record of eleven out of a possible
twelve "M's" open to him, by tying with another Michigan man, Barrett,
in the high jump at the Conference Meet, and taking second in the
shotput. Nelson A. Kellogg, '04, came decidedly to the fore in 1901 in
the long-dista