The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-26
The Testimony Of the Scores.

To rHn EDITOR OF THE SUN--,Sfr: Yesterday
ono Of your correspondents objected to a remark
In your recent editorial on Football In This City,
TO tho effect that TO sec good NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ship contests" was the phrase--New Workers must
-travel to Cambridge. New Haven or Princeton"
He thinks thai by 50 sal wing you are Hunconscousy
unfair 70 Columbia teams" and adduces the facts
that columbia has played and defeated Annapolis
twice: has played West Point only and defeated
her In that game. The last time Princeton played
In New York her team was defeated by Columbia
Pennsylvania has played In New York twice and
on both occasions has been beaten by Columbia
Columbia has beaten Cornell the last two years"
On looking UP the records for the last six seasons
beginning with that Of eel ind these facts: In
1899 Columbia lost to Princeton, Oil. She defeated
Yale so, but that was the season In which Yale
played q no score game with Harvard and was
defeated hy Princeton. i1-io Finally. Columbia
lost tc the Indians-snowed under, 0-46. In sum-
ming up the season at Its close this ranking was
riven: "Other teams latter Princeton, Yale and
Harvard may be classed In the following order:
the Indians, Pennsylvania. Cornell. Lafayette and
Columbia"
Tho following season. 1900, Columbia beat Prince
ton As your correspondent says. BY score Of rs,
but Princeton played the game only three days after
losing battle with Cornell Still Of course. far
records 20. the game stands fairly and squarey as
Columbia victory. But tho force In tho Princeton
side Of the argument Is attested by these scores:
Yale II, Columbia s: Pennsylvania 80. Columbia o:
Harvard ~. Columbia o. Columbia o. Williams o.
In 1901 Cornell beat Columbia, A-o; Syracuse beat
her. II s; Harvard beat her, $780, Yale beat her, 10 5.
Her only notable victory against Pennsylvania,
ITO lone ofthe games mentioned by "New YorkerD.
and Pennsylvania lost 10 Cornell In that year, ga:
70 West Point. 0-24 and 10 Harvard, 8-s3.
In 1907 the following scores were made against
Columbia and in each game her own was nd:
Princeton, II: Pennsylvania (herself defeated by
Harvard. Annapolis. Brown and the Indians, II;
Brown, %: Amherst 70 Syracuse tied Columbia 60.
Columbia did better In 1908. defeating Amherst.
PennsyivaniA and Corne but that was the year
In which Princeton beat Cornell 40. and Yale ran
away with Columbia, $50 Last season Columbia
scored IL TO Cornell's Q: but Pennsylvana's score
against Cornell was 40. Amherst beat Columbia
1910; Pennsylvania boat her. 100, and Yale beat
her, $40.
don't cite these facts a. an attack on Columbia
football. but merely In answer to New Workers."
charge OF unconscious unfairneSs" on your part.
Columbia plays rood football but not champion
ship" football: and you were wholly In your
statement TO the Inferior quality OF the article
offered to the rooteas Of this sport loving city.
Your suggestion that the West Point-Annapolis
eame might DO played here why not under tho
auspices Of Columbia itself, the War and Navy
departments object 10 hiring the Polo Grounds
and charging enough TO clear expensesD was ex-
celent. REFKRKK.
NEW YoRx. July Is.