Promotional image of campus athletics including tennis and football from the 1896 School Bulletin.
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
“A sound mind is a sound body ” — Juvenal.
There is an athletic association, in which is manifested considerable interest. Its object is twofold: Recreation, or enjoyment, and physical training.
The plays consist of Foot Ball, Lawn Tennis, Croquet, Alley Ball, Tug of War, Base Ball, Delsarte Calisthenics. All teachers and students in the school are membersof the athletic association. The membership fee is fifty cents per year, if paid in advance, or twenty-five cents per term. This fee is compulsory.
Considerable work has been done on the athletic field during the year. It is laid off in the form of a rectangle. Within this rectangle is an eliptic race track, exactly a quarter of a mile around ; and around the outer curve of the race track and in the corners made by the rectangle and the elipse are planted a half dozen variety of trees, planted in such a mauner as to give an artistic touch to the grounds. There has never been a time when there has been so much interest in athletics as at the present time. It is that kind of athletics which touches all within the school. They are not developed only for the few, but are for the whole. There are tennis grounds, gymnasium apparatus, basketball grounds, croquet grounds, race track, baseball field, football field, marching grounds, golf-links, quoits, target shooting, archery, etc. Every one finds some form of athletics in which he is interested.
Colorado Normal School Bulletin, 1901.
