The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-23
Princeton First in Football.

1t is not often that the end of the foot
pal season leaves the championship so
clear cut. Princeton, by defeating Yale,
which In turn downed Harvard, the con-
queror OF Pennsylvania, is easily entitled
to first honors. The chances Of a Michi-
gan victory were much debated last fall,
put there was no meeting, but the con-
census OF opinion was that the tigers
would have won
Princeton is likewise the holder of the
baseball championship, thus securing the
Two most important athletic Champion
ships OF the year. There are those who
Will dispute Princetons title to the base
ball honors because the tigers were de-
feated twice by Georgetown, once by
pennsylvania and by other minor colleges:
put with the exception Of the one Penn
sylvanfa game the tigers were not pre-
pairing for the games in which they were
defeated for had they done so they would
undoubtedly have won them Princeton
won the Yale series, and altho Harvard
also defeated Yale, the tigers made their
claim to the championship sure by trouu-
cling Harvard in the one game played.
In track athletics Yale, by capturing
first place in the intercollegiate meet on
Franklin field in May, demonstrated her
| superiority in this field. In the west,
Michigan won similar honors at the con-
ference meet in Chicago.
There is naturally a great deal of argu-
ment as to which institution deserved the
rowing championship. Syracuse won the
premier honors at the Poughkeepsie re-
gatta, while Yale did likewise at New
London. AS the crews of Syracuse and
Yale did not meet, it is impossible to de-
eide the question in this way. Syracuse
certainly has more right claim the
championship than Yale, because the
Poughkeepsie regatta is primarily an in
tercollegiate affair, while the Yale-Har-
ward regatta is only dual meeting. Har-
ward and Yale have been invited to send
crews to Poughkeepsie, but have refused
each year, so that they have no reason
to complain If Syracuse claims the title,
The golf championship was divided be-
tween Harvard and Princeton. Harvard
won the team championship and Prince
ton the individual honors thru the vic
tory of F. O. Reinhart. In the intercol-
legiate tennis tournament E. P. Dewhurst
of the University of Pennsylvania won the
singles and Columbia the doubles.
Columbia First in Basketball.
The basketball championship was de-
cided In the winter by regular sched-
ule, the only sport in which this method
was used. In a series of ten games Co
lumbia was not defeated once and carried
off first honors, with Pennsylvania second,
Haverford college triumphed in cricket,
ueleatlnS pennsylvania, Harvard and Cor
nell, the other colleges in the league.
Swarthmore college holds undisputed
claim to the lacrosse championship by
beating every college Of Importance, east,
west, north and south, even trouncing the
Toronto university champions in easy
fashion.
The West Point military academy car
ried off the honors in the fencing tourna-
ment which was held in New York last
March, easily beating their college rivals
The hockey championship was won by
Harvard after a desperate struggle with
Yale. Harvard won her third champion
ship of the year by making the best score
in the intercollegiate shoot held at New
Haven last fall. The gymnasium cham
pionship was settled in New York and
was won by Yale.
Several other sports, such as chess,
bowling, billiards, checkers and SWIM
ming, are fostered at the leading UNIVERSE
ties. but no attempt has ever been made
to hold intercollegiate tournaments in
them, tho in most there are dual meetings
between rival colleges.