The Portland daily press., 1897-05-15
yALEs NEW TROPHY ROOM.
BasebaIIs, Tattered Banners and Silver
Cups.

lctic chamberin tn G new gymnasium.
The new trophy room stands at thu
head of the marble staircase in the gym
nasium and is finished in white marble
with woodwork and walls in white. T'h,
wainscoting is of Italian marble and til.
walls, which stretch to lofty ceiling, q c
paneled and decorated in bas-relief. Tht
floor is of mosaic tiling, and on the souti
side is a superb arched marble and onyx
fireplace.
The room was furnished by the class of
~ at a cost of several thousands OF dol
lars. OF this class was Eugene V. Baker,
the father of football at Yale and the cap
tain of the first eleven that ever won
game from Harvard. In his honor has
been erected q magnificent bronze tablet
at the south side of the room.
The furnishings of the room include
heavy oak table (around which Yale
athletic teams gather sometimes for their
annual elections), four magnificent trophy
cases, carved oaken chairs, and many
minor appointments.
Suspended from lofty cornice extend
ing all around the room are all OF Yale
pennants and trophy flags. There are
about fifty in the enclosure. Some OF the
trophies resemble dilapidated flags of the
Revolution. The Oldest banner of the
collection is tattered silk flag bearing
the inscription 'sYale VS. Harvard, Worces-
ter, July %, 1865 This is memento OF
the victory of Wilbur Bacon's six Dared
crew which made the American record OF
II minutes AZ Ia seconds for three miles,
with a turn, on Lake Quinsigamond.
Close to this hangs the flag won by the
Yale freshmen, also at Worcester, in the
race on June 2, 1867.
Yale graduates look with pride on the
handsome blue banner won by Yale in
1873 over the Sprin gfield course. Twelve
colleges were in the race, but after the
first two miles the race lay between Yale
and Harvard The crimsons led most of
the distance, but Yale's PROV shot ahead
at the finish.
Both banners and footballs mark Yale's
successes on the gridiron, bearing the
names of Camp, Knapp, Tompkins, Bull,
Richards, Corbin, McClung, Heffelfnger,
Wallace, Bliss, Hinkey, and other famous
men of their day.
In this connection it is interesting to
note that, of the II Yale-Harvard annual
football games, 10 have been won by
Yale; and Of the 20 Princeton games
II have been taken by Yale, 5 by Prince
ton, and were ties.
Four big oaken cases filed with are
many of the National League base
balls won from all the college teams of
the country, occupy inches in the room.
Yale has won from Harvard 46 balls,
from Princeton 40, from Amherst 20, from
Brown 81, from Williams 10, from the
University of Pennsylvania 10, from
Dartmouth 8, the University of Vermont
2, from Columbus s, and from various
other colleges and mines 40. The balls
from Harvard fill one entire case, while
those from Princeton occupy another.
The ball used in the first game ever
played by Yale nine is still preserved.
The contest took place at Hamilton (now
Elm City, Park in New Haven, Septem-
Der 30, 1866, Yale playing the Agallian
Club of the Wesleyan University 1t
resulted: Yale, 80; Wesleyan. 70; lasting
three hours, 90 minutes. The first Yale
Harvard game was played in 1868, but
until 1878 Yale was unable to win match
from the Crimson. The first Yale-Prince
ton game was played June 25 1868, and
resulted: Yale, 80; Princeton, 49, The
intercollegiate Baseball Association was
formed in 1880. Till it's disruption in 1891
Yale lost only single championship to
Harvard, and since that time Yale has
won the Harvard series annually, except
ing in 1898, when Harvard won the decis-
i've game, and in 1896, when the mines
did not meet. Yale has, since 1880, lost
three baseball championships to Prince
ton.
Yale's cups are, perhaps, her proudest
possession. They include the massive
solid silver cup won at the Centennial
from all English and American compet-
ing crews. This was Bob Cooks famous
eight. The cup is valued at $500. 1t
stands in the center of the upper shelf of
the case. Beside it are the Cuyler class
cup, given by G. G. Cuyler of New York,
for class competition in various branches
of sports. On the lower shelf in the CEN
ter is the international trophy cup, won
by Yale in 1S9 3 in the contest against the
Cambridge (England) crack team. To
the left of this is, first, the cup won by
Yale in the annual yacht race at New
London, and at the end of the line is the
cup offered by prominent Yale Alumni
for the dual Yale-Harvard track cham
pionship. 1t was won by Yale in 1895,
the last time the colleges met.
At the right of the International Track
cup is the cup won by Yale in the annual
Intercollegiate track games in New York
last year.
These two hundred or SO trophies tell
the tale of Yales athletic history. They
show how superior in the athletic world
Yale has been for years, and indicate the
task that looms up before the Yale ath-
letic teams that meet Harvard and other
co1laoos thiS wear on all athletic fields -