UNIVERSITY RATED ONE OF FAVORITES IN NATIONAL MEET

After four unsuccessful attempts to annex a national indoor championship, the University track squad will enter the lists of the fifth annual I. C. A. A. A. A. meet tonight in the 102nd Engineers Regiment Armory, New York City primed to make a strong bid for the title honors. A rank outsider two years ago and a dark horse last year, the Crimson squad will take to the wooden track tonight, one of the three favorites to carry off the national crown now worn by Georgetown.

Since the first meeting of this kind held in 1922, the University entries have steadily become more dangerous in the indoor competition. Two years ago the Crimson athletes surprised their supporters by carrying off 5 1-9 points to finish eleventh in a field of 22 universities and colleges. Last year Coach Farrell's runners again furnished the outstanding upset of the meet by nosing the strong Pennsylvania squad out of second place and finishing behind the Georgetown winners with 24 1-4 points Tonight with the most powerful array of point winners in five years Captain Tibbetts' men are ranked on even terms with the defending champions, and with Yale and Pennsylvania.

Take 34 Men to Run in Meet

The University team of 34 men arrived in New York last night and will rest until the meet. At 10 o'clock today there will be a meeting at the Harvard Club for the executive committees of the "Big Three."

Another team which will be rated high when the athletes take the track tonight will be Boston College, with a nucleus of Hussey. Sophomore dash star, a two mile relay team which is reputed to be made up of four men who can average two or three seconds under the two minute mark for the half mile, and Murphy, a hurdler who has an imposing record in the national Junior and Senior A. A. U. contests last spring.