"Our toughest opponents to repeat as Conference champs will again be Prospect," stated head track coach Mr. Joe Jobst. The loss of Rich Bokor, Lloyd Schlegel, John Greco, and Russ Suszko will hurt this year's team in trying to repeat as Conference champs. These four boys are doing well on track teams in their freshman year of college as they did last year on the Maine West track team.

In their first indoor meet of the season the varsity trackmen placed third in the Proviso West Quadrangular in which Proviso West took first and Proviso East placed second, and Hinsdale captured fourth.

Bill Morstadt and Wally Tistle placed third and fifth respectively for the trackmen. Sophomore Lee LaBadie then placed second in the two mile run ahead of Ed Katz of Proviso West, who was a District cross country champion.

Warrior Kevin Flurkey captured second in the half‑mile run missing first place by only one second to Al Jakosa of Proviso West, who placed fifth in the State meet last year. Junior Ed Lusk came through for the Warriors as he placed third in the half‑mile.

Another distance man, Doug Chase, placed fifth in the mile run, Maine's mile relay team of Barry Johnson, Jim Braun, Flurkey, and Lusk captured second behind Proviso East.

In the field events Warrior Jim Hren captured the best place for the trackmen as he was fourth in the broad jump. George Bongratz was the only other Warrior to place in the field events as he took fifth in the shot put.

The frosh‑soph track team placed second in the quadrangular behind Proviso West. They were led by sophomores John Mattson, Ted Faught, and Larry Nelson.

In the high hurdles Faught set a fieldhouse record and took first, and Bob Richter took third for Maine. Richter placed third in the high hurdles and Faught placed fourth.

John Mattson took a first in the 50 yard dash with a time of 5.8 seconds which is now established as the new fieldhouse record at Proviso West. Tom Venama then placed third in the half‑mile for the Warriors. The 880 yard relay team of Tom Damptz, Mike Giesel, Faught, and Mattson took a third.

Gary Keehn and Dave Hooper placed third and fourth respectively for the Warriors. The tracksters mile relay team of Keehn, Warren Kane, Mattson, and looper also captured a third.

Faught captured first in the broad jump, which set another fieldhouse record of 19 feet four inches, and Nelson captured a second for the Warriors. Nelson also took second in the high jump, as Jim Mueting placed second in the pole vault. Roy Schmidt of Maine West also placed second in the shot put for the tracksters.