1925 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships

1925 NCAA Track and Field Championships
Host city	Chicago, Illinois University of Chicago
Date(s)	June 1925
Main stadium	Stagg Field
Events	14
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The 1925 NCAA Track and Field Championships was the fourth NCAA track and field championship. The event was held at Stagg Field in Chicago, Illinois in June 1925. Stanford University won the team title, and six NCAA records were set at the two-day meet.

The 1925 NCAA Track and Field Championships were held at Stagg Field in Chicago on June 13 and 14, 1925. In a field of more than 400 athletes from 62 colleges and universities, Stanford University won the team title with 39½ points, and the University of Michigan finished second with 33-1/5 points.

The track team from the University of Southern California won the Eastern Inter-collegiate meet, but the school did not send its team to the NCAA meet. Stanford had previously beaten the USC team in that year's Pacific Coast championship.

One of the highlights of the 1925 NCAA meet was the performance of DeHart Hubbard, an African-American athlete from the University of Michigan. In his final collegiate meet, Hubbard set a new world record in the broad jump with a jump of 25 feet, 10⅞ inches. Hubbard had set the world record in the event in 1923, but Robert LeGendre had surpassed Hubbard's record at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. At the 1925 NCAA meet, Hubbard broke LeGendre's record by more than four inches. The Associated Press wrote that the crowd was thrilled by DeHart's leap, which experts predicted would "Stand for All Time":

"Competing under the colors of the University of Michigan for the last time, Dehart Hubbard ... today achieved the ambition of his athletic career when he smashed the world's record for the running broad jump ... Hubbard achieved his record breaking leap on his very last jump as he had reached the end of his trials. ... Pulling off his sweater, the 21 year old negro flash swiftly got away to a perfect start, cleared the take-off with perfect form, and sent his body hurdling thru space kicking his legs in scissor fashion just before his feet hit the earth.

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