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1 Frank Morton Sports Day
2 History
3 Current Format
4 Last Year's Event
5 This Year's Event
6 Corporate Sponsorship

[edit] Frank Morton Sports Day

The Frank Morton Sports Day is an annual sporting competition between the students of chemical engineering faculties from UK universities. The event is held on one of the campuses of one of the competing universities, normally in the second week of February, when there is less academic pressure on students.

[edit] History

The event is named after Frank Morton, a prominent lecturer in Chemical Engineering, who taught at Birmingham University until 1956, when he switched to teaching at UMIST (now Manchester University). His love for sport and connections at both universities led him to organise the first of these sports day. The competition began as a football match between the two faculties, but by the 1960's, the event had grown to include many more universities and sports

Previous Winners:

2007: Imperial College London
2006: University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology
2005: Imperial College London[1]
2004: Loughborough University
2003: University of Sheffield
2002: Imperial College London
2001: Imperial College London
2000: Imperial College London
1999: Loughborough University
1998: Loughborough University
1997: University of Newcastle
1996: University of Birmingham
1995: Loughborough University
1994: Loughborough University
1993: University of Birmingham
1992: Loughborough University
1991: University of Birmingham
1989: University of Birmingham
1985: University of Birmingham

[edit] Current Format

The modern version of the sports day shows significant development from the original concept, though the ideals of friendly competition and rivalry remain. The day can begin for many students as early as 2am, when they travel from their university to where the competition is held. Sports competitions are held throughout the day, typically from around 10am to 4pm. After the conclusion of the sporting events, other competitions take place, such as a Pool and Pub quiz competitions. Despite the less athletic nature of these competitions, teams' performances in them still count towards the final points total for the universities. In the evening, the performances of the teams in all events are used to determine the winning university of that year's competition. Following an award ceremony, the visiting students are given the opportunity to sample the local night life of the host university.

[edit] Last Year's Event

The 2006 event[2] was held at Birmingham University and showcased many different sports, featuring Ultimate Frisbee for the first time. Other sports included:

as well as a Pool competition and Pub quiz and a "Pit Stop Challenge" where teams would compete for the fastest time to change the tyres on a replica Formula 1 car.

The event was won by Manchester University, who also won the football, ultimate and rugby competitions, considered by many to be the showcase competitions of the event.

Overall Winners of Frank Morton 2006 - UMIST

[edit] This Year's Event

The 2007 event was hosted by Manchester University. Although it has been customary for previous winners to host the next event, this practice is no longer used, and the fact that Manchester were hosts the year after they won the competition is coincidental. Today Universities present their proposals to the IChemE National Student Council and a winner is chosen by one round of voting.

This year's event was held on the 20th of February. There were minor changes to the list of sports with rounders being replaced by dodgeball, and table-tennis being added.

The overall winner this year was Imperial College, who finished joint winners of the Basketball competition with Strathclyde University. The University of Manchester and Cambridge University came in at 2nd and 3rd respectively. Imperial also won in both the Singles and Doubles Badminton, as well as the Pub Quiz. The football was won by Strathclyde University.

[edit] Corporate Sponsorship

For several years companies who employ chemical engineering graduates in the UK have sponsored aspects of the event, and have occasionally entered teams in some of the competitions. However, the 2006 event saw far more sponsorship than ever before, with every sport being representative of a company looking to attract graduates to work for them.

This Year's Sponsors were;