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Originally Posted by steve B

Maybe. I think the key would be the handwritten panel on the middle one. If the UI ones have any with that sort of panel it would seem likely.

I believe Murphy is this guy.
http://www.sports-reference.com/olym...-murphy-3.html

Interestingly there's an ad for postcards of collegiate week on the last page of this paper. AND an ad for a souvenir mirror showing the baseball team.
http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi...L19100520.2.4#

Steve B

Steve, thanks for your help! I kept reading it as "Murphy Conference" and not "Murphy, Conference 1910". I have to bet you've identified the pole vaulter, because it jives with the rest of the story. Thanks for the help!

And to the ad in the newspaper, how about that! One hour service 100 years ago for getting film printed. Amazing!