CAA News  11/27
    The 48th annual Ted Haydon Classic will kick off the Chicago-area
track and field season on Saturday, Dec. 16 at the University of Chicago's
Henry Crown Field House, 56th and University Ave.
    Field events will begin at 9 a.m. and track events will commence 
at 1 p.m.  Approximately 300 athletes are expected to compete. 
     Entry fee is $6 per event, $24 per relay team and $150 per team. A
team entry is good for up to 30 athletes wioth a limit of two events per
competitor.  Entries are due by Dec. 11.  For more information, call meet
director and three-time Olympian Jim Spivey, U of C's track and cross
-country coach, at (773)
752-4640.
     The Haydon meet is sponsored and organized by the University of
Chicago Track Club (UCTC).  The meet was founded in 1953 as a holiday
get-together when U of C coach Edward "Ted" Haydon organized an indoor
meet for athletes who were home for winter break. The meet then evolved
into the UCTC, which today offers year-round indoor and outdoor training
programs for athletes at all levels. Haydon died in 1985 at age 73.
     Events include: pole vault, 20-pound weight throw (W), long jump,
high jump, 35-pound weight throw (M), shot put, triple jump, 55-meter
dash, mile run, 400-meters, 800-meters, 55-meter hurdles, 200-meters,
3,000-meters (W), 5,000-meters (M), 1,600-meter relay.