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rated, but taking no notice Of the
and Michigan teams on the day they
played the eastern aggregations.
Caspar still pirates of athletic purity
appearing to be strongly imbued with
the idea that the English rules are
about the proper thing. He fails to
grasp that the trend Of the times is
away from she old fool rules of eligi-
btlity. The real funny part Of his team
tho, is that like Walter Camps it is
made without seeing the western teams
in action, He perhaps saw Michigan
90 against Penn, but it is doubtful if
he watched either Minnesota or Chi
cago at any time.
are long way from the Outing Office
and railroad fare is high to editors
since the pass proposition was stabbed
by reform. Anyway real great foot
ball critic need not see teams play to
gage their strength. He can read up
Eddie Bushnell g estimates of teams he
has never seen or the jaundiced dope
sent out by the college press bureaus,
and keep thoroly posted.
But while not gambler we will
wager a chocolate eclaire with Teddy
bear gumdrop for chaser that Mich
igan whales the stufing out Of Penn
next season and that Minnesota gives
the redskins the worst walloping they
have received since the Wounded Knee
incident. If Caspar ever descended to
the sordid we would make it a couple
of bucks, but we hesitate to shock his
esthetic taste with such barbarian
proposition,
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-30
BY Walter Eckersali.
All-American Quarter.
e. OOTBALL during the year 1905
n marked new era for the grid

e. OOTBALL during the year 1905
marked new era for the grid
iron game. However much past
seasons may have claimed superiority
in point Of highly trained teams and
star players, the year just finished will
go down as the beginning Of new'
football exploited successfully under
the 1906 rules Of the American foot
ball rules committee. The rules were
remarkably uccessful-much more so
than is usually the case with new de-
partures in their first trial.
Anticipating the changes already
made and perhaps still to be made in
the rules, it is safe to say that the
new game win be developed to a tech
nical finish and certainty every bit as
high as the old-fashioned game. Many
coaches and teams feared to venture
on new ground this year, and this fact
accounts for the rather sparing use of
the 1906 rules in some quarters. An
other season will see them in general
use. e. H..a @
The forward pass-the most radical
change-with it's accompanying adjust
ments, changed football from grind
ing game between pushing machines,
where the heavier team pushed its bali
over the opposing goal line almost in
proportion to the comparative weights,
to more scientific contest, where wits
and accuracy are at premium and
where there is much more uncertainty
and chance for sensational and bril-
liant coups. Classy kicking, tackling,
than weight in the backfeld, and
weight combined with speed in the line,
are now. the essentials for q high class
team.
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Oct. 3-only four days before the sea-
son closed.
The sport was clean in every respect
and satisfied the lovers of the game
The "fans' seemed to find the rules
and regulations for the pastime as near.
ly perfect as they could be made, and
nothing hindered a season Of thoro en-.
loyment at the thousands Of ball parks
thruout the country.
The minor leagues prospered in pro-
portion to the success Of the major or
ganizations. One league was hard hit.
The Pacific Coast league was almost put
out of business by the San Francisco
earthquake, but the rest all did well.
In looking ahead to the 1907 season
1t looks even more promising for the
public and the club-owners than the sea-
son of 1906. There has been unusual
activity by the rival teams in securing
new players, and several of them have
engaged new managers to better repre-
sent their cities along the circuits in
the coming season As close as the
American league race was this year, I
look for fully as interesting race in
.oO7. 1t would be idle for anyone to
try to pick the winner now, for the
battle for the honors next year will be
Just as fercely fought and teeming
with just as many possibilities.
Chicago's baseball population is espe-
cially fortunate in having two pennant-
winning teams and the worlds cham
pionship aggregation. The coming year
has much in store for the lovers Of the
great national pastime.
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Bv MaIachv AooaY1.

6y Matacny 7o9an.
Boxing, with the exception of Chicago, more
than held its own during the year, and this de-
spite some heavyweight opposition from many
quarters. The disaster to San Francisco prac-
tically stopped the sport In that city, but Los
Angeles to have profted and some of
the big matches Of the year have been pulled
With the entrance of Nevada into the arena
pugilism has been made better, known to the
world than has been the case in several years.
The lavish expenditures Of money out in that
region has made the sagebrush state the center
of the game at present even putting into the
somewhat sizeable purses offered in Los Ange-
les. ~: ~ ..,.-... '.--.
In the east the sport has had its ups and
downs as has been the case for years. 1t can
hardly be said that pugilfsm has secured foot
hold anywhere along the Atlantic coast unless
it is in Baltimore Philadelphia manages to keep
itself on the map with its six-round bouts but
New York is absolutely dead. Boston keeps
itself in the limelight fairly well during the
past year, but recently the authorities have
screwed the lid tight. An attempt was made
to pull off bouts in Pennsylvania outside of
Philadelphia, but the militia beat the promot-
ers to 1t. .z4 -.r.-.r.-r 49,. E
The. situation around Chicago is we'll known
graveyard quietness In matters pugilistic
and It hardly looks as If the game is going to
be revived. Nothing but "bush" fights have
been staged in and around Chicago, and these
bouts have been between Scrubs Farther out
In the state number of good bouts have been
pulled on, as has been the also in Wiseon-
sin, Michigan ard Indiana. However the death
of Mike Ward IN the ring at Grand Rapids
killed the sport ir Michigan for the time being
There has been very little of activity in other
states. with the exception Of Washington and
Montana. Colorado has blossomed forth with
fight now and then, but there has been no go
Of any Importance.
In the limited space afforded it is impossi-
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as many years, = and Cornell has cap
tured seven Of them, being beaten only
in 1901, when Yale and Pennsylvania
finished ahead Of her. "|s
The baseball team of last season
lost only three of it's important games
two to Princeton and one to Yale
and and was generally ranked second, hay
member Of the "big six" except
Princeton.
For the past three years the football
team has been coached by Glenn S.
Warner, who graduated from Cornell in
1895 and made his reputation as grid
iron coach and strategist at the Car
Isle Indian school.
This year the team went thru the
season with but one defeat, being
beaten by Princeton IA to 5. These
five points represented the only touch
down scored against the tigers this
year. In the final game Of the season
Cornell played 90 game with Penn
sylvania.
Cornell men are proudest not of the
magnitude or number of their victories,
but of the cleanness of them and of the
fact that all their teams are free from
any taint Of foul play or professional
ism.
Attention has been called to the fact
that of all the big football teams in the
east this fall, Cornell was the only
one which did not have man ordered
off the field by an official. Cornell men
themselves point with pride to the fact
! that in the hard-fought game with
Princeton on the Polo grounds in New
York city their team was not once PEN
allied for an infraction of the rules.
The alumni and former students of
Cornell are now constructing on the
hill near the university campus what
promises to be the finest college ath-
letic field in the country. It will con-
tain ffty-fve acres.
When it is available one of the great
est obstacles to athletic success at Cor
nell will be removed the distance of
the practice field from the college
buildings.
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CORNELL LEADS EAST III ATHLETICS
~ ORNELL this year has won more
N high honors and had more con-
~0 sistent record of success in inter
athletics than any other

~ ORNELL this year has won more
q high honors and had more con-
~ sistent record of success in inter
collegiate athletics than any other
American university.
She now holds the championship in
two of the four "ma! !or' sports-row
ing and track athletics-and a high
place in the other two, being ranked
second in baseball and fourth in foot
ball.
Of the "minor' sports, Cornell is
first in cross-country running and la
crosse and is tied with two other col
leges for the cricket championship.
Thus out Of the twelve generally rec
ognized college sports, the Ithacans hold
four and third championships. No
other college comes anywhere near this
record
1t was not so many years ago that
the Ithaca university was practically
unheard of in athletics, except in the
single branch of rowing Cornell has
had winning crews for thirty years
Then the Ithacans came to the front
in 1899 with a winning cross-country
team, and in this branch Of sport they
have been defeated only once since.
In 1905 they confounded the proph-
cts by taking first place in the inter
collegiate track and field meet. This
championship Cornell retains. having
won by increased score last May.
The oldest sport at Cornell is rowing,
and that has been going on since 1871,
three years after the university was
inaugurated. In that year the Cornell
navy was organized. Rowing at Cor
nell was inevitable, anyway. With a
lake as broad and inviting as Cayuga
before their eyes every day in the
year. no healthy body of young men
could refrain from organizing crews and
having races.
In 1871 Thomas Hughes, author of
'Tom Brown at Rugby' and "Tom
Brown at Oxford' visited Cornell uni
versity and gave talk to the students
about boating at Oxford, his alma ma
ter. Enthusiasm was aroused, which has
never since Diminished. Cornell row
ing may thus be said to have sprung
from the very source of college oars
manship-Oxford tradition.
1t thrived in the atmosphere of
Cayuga, and there were rivals on the
ground for the young oarsmen at Cor
nell. At Union Springs, near the lower
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training table, which I regard as inval-
liable in conditioning the men and in
promoting spirit and information on the
game among the players. -
IL seems rather unusual to be forced
logically to discuss the various teams
last. However, the scores of the games
are unimportant in comparison with
the new rules and the reforms" es-
peclally as the big western teams did
not meet. Chicago made brilliant
record, defeating Purdue, Indiana, I'LL
nols and Nebraska by record-sized
scores. .~-,~
The fact that Minnesota defeated
Chicago by the score Of 4 to 9 gives
the gophers a good record. It is useless
to discuss further the probabilities of
a Chicago victory over Minnesota
mains D that rx ffla Mianesota The ,nd fret ore
cago met on a muddy field, and that
Minnesota proved to be the better
team under the conditions in which the
game was played. On comparative
scores, Chicago has all the better Of it.
The maroons defeated Nebraska SO to
5 and Indiana 33 to 8, while the
gophers defeated Nebraska 13 to o and
Indiana to 6.
AS | did not play against Michigan
or Wisconsin, can say little regard
ing these teams at first hand. Michi-
gan apparently had a.weaker team than
usual. Again comparative scores come
handy, as Chicago defeated@ Illinois 63
to 0 and Michigan won from the Illini
by % to 9 score. Illinois had a.
bad season, while Wisconsin went thru
without a defeat with somewhat
ordinary schedule. Chicago, Michigan
and Wisconsin cannot be Compared ex-s
cepting by the unsatisfactory compare.
tive score method. Michigan I'M.
adoubtedly was weakened by the un-
fortunate accident to Captain Curtis.
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WESTERN COLLEGEATHLETICs

and to that end the conference meet is open
to all colleges who have adopted and are en-
forcing conference rules which rules admittedly
make for cleaner and better. athletics 1T NAV
at some time be wise to establish another inter
collegiate body. composed Of the colleges west
Of the Mississippi river. as the teams from the
far west are heavily handicapped by the dis
lance they must travel. Meanwhile, however,
the conference sends invita- tions for it's meet as
far rs the Pacific coast s.z .-....
Iennls and golf each command considerable
interest, and this has been shown in several
successful intercollegiate tournaments 1sS
= In aquatic sports the west does not as vet
excel, altho there IS increasing interest in
water polo, and Intercollegiate matches are more
frequent each year. We have only one rowing
college in the west. Wisconsin deserves great
credit Tor sportsmanlke work under trying con-
ditlons and it Is to be hoped that the visit of
the syracuse crew next spring will bring a sue
cess which Wisconsin surely deserves - So
In review of the year the most notable
event is the upheaval of the conference rela
t1ons and rules, caused by the special confer
ence last spring. Now that the intensity of the
situation is relieved and some practical test
mas been made Of the changes adopted at that
time, let rs hope for full resumption of inter.
collegiate contests on basis Of mutual conf
dence, satisfactory to all. pzs5i. sEI4-9a ~" !.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-30
BY "Ban" johnson,
~ history of baseball'' has

- NN OOl SUCCESSFUL year IN Cne
become trite phrase, yet
none other so adequately expresses the
situation after review Of the season
Of 1906. From every viewpoint it sur
passed anything ever known in the an
nails Of the game. More people saw
ball games this year than ever before,
and there was by far more interest in
the campaigns of the various leagues.
Of course. there was one unprece-
dented condition that added spice to
the baseball feast. That was the fact
that two Chicago teams finished at the
top of the heap in the races for the
big league Dennants. No series Of games
ever stirred up the country to such an
extent and none was ever watched with
such absorbing interest.
The American league champions won
the world s, championship af ter hard
fight, finishing their season g work in
dazzling style. I doubt if there ever
will be more spectacular season Of
work on the diamond than the last
campaign Of the whitesox. They occu-
pied every place in the league race
except the bottom station, and yet over
came all handicaps, and, by a beautiful
squirt in midseason, that eclipsed all
n}d rst n1sea Pufd themselves
1h'V nIsC Place. AltnO Lney dropped
back, for brief spell, they showed the
stamina to squirt again at the finish
and won the pennant in the last week
of the schedule. =
The manner in which the sox, ex-
hausted after their whitening battle
against the American league teams, de-
f1eated the National league champions
in the worlds series is meriting Of the
highest praise, and the American pub
lie was not slow in heaping that praise
upon the victors. - ...-
The American league was fortunate
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-12-30
BY William Scott Bond.
President Alumni Committee Intercollegiate
Conference.

While the year in western collegiate ath-
Ietics HIS not been prosperous financially, we
may look back over its with some pride
and feel that such financial prosperity is de-
sirable only in so far as it Is necessary to
support collegiate athletics in the best way.
There are many undesirable results of a large
net surplus i'll collegiate athletic receipts, and
especially when such a surplus depends almost
entirely OH the work of one team. The fact
that football supports all other branches of col
lege athletics is dcplorable, particularly on ac-
count of the struggle to arrange profitable games
which Is forced each college.
The track teams of this year had an early
start last winter. and after a number of sue
cessful indoor meets rounded into good shape
for the conference meet at the new field Of
Northwestern university in June. The entries
for this meet were about the same in number
and the records Of the same high standard as
IN previous years. the most notable performances
being the worlds record Of Samse of Indiana
In the pole vault, and the wonderful work Of
Garrels Of Michigan who won three first places
and in all eighteen points. '+a -.-s
The University of Michigan won the meet
by wide margin. with the University of Chi
cago second AS to the general excellence of
the records the western universities may CON
gratulate themselves upon the fact that in this
one branch of sport, where fair comparison
may be made with the east, our records are
quite the equal Of those of the eastern uniyer-
sites.
1t is the aim Of the conference universities to
foster western collegiate athletics generally,
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the, oarsmanship Of Cornell declined for
lack Of rivalry. There were races on
the lake between Cornell boat clubs,
but little intercollegiate Competition
until along in the eighties, when the
sport was revived and Courtney was
engaged as permanent coach.
Cornell s record Of success since then
race after race with rival colleges and
has broken her own records for three
and four miles repeatedly. The crew
again in 1se5Nbut both trips abroad
were fascos, and for ten years past
Cornell has been content to row at
home. Yale and Harvard were beaten
by Cornell in 1897 and 1898.
Syracuse won the Poughkeepsie re-
gatta in 1904, but the next year Cor
nell took revenge in an overwhelming
victory. Her crew finished quarter
of mile ahead of Syracuse, Penn
sylvania, Wisconsin and Georgetown.
Another victory was won this year.
The varsity crew also beat Harvard
in 1905 and 1906.
Coach Moakley's Success.
It was in 1905 that Cornell came to
the front in track athletics Under the
coaching Of John F. Moakley, who had
been engaged in 1899, the track squaS
had grown consistently better year by
year. Moakley's speciality is discover
ing and developing distance runners.
One of his greatest finds was War
rem Schutt, who holds the American in
tercollegiate record for two miles and
who is now Rhodes scholar at Ok
ford.
Last May Cornell again won the in
tercollegiate meet, taking first place in
the 440yard dash, and half mile and
two-mile runs and tying for first place
in the pole vault.
In cross-country running there have
been eight intercollegiate contests in
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his wagon full of debrutalized oatmeal
and dump it on the front porch when
he knows he will have a fine chassay
to do the collecting before the close Of
the new year. --.
We wander forth in the morning and
greet the neighbor with the compli-
ments Of the season and he goes back
and tells his wife that "Binks must
nj naXe y, n had ;, a peach on last night. He's
This Vandyke form of New Year
sentiment is all right to read and pom
der over, but when you wander forth
in the sporting world to put it into
practice it is just as well to take a
loaded cane and blunderbuss along.
When your arch enemy extends the
right hand of greeting and wishes of
the season on New Years morn be
sure and block with your left as your
right grasps his. He might cross you.
You will probably tell your wife that
and then go down town and start a
panic thru the Tom and Jerry bowl
that causes the most hardened bar
keeper to sit up and take notice. You
will count up the number of times you
have been played for sucker under
the old regime Of 1906 and then walk
into all of the 1907 traps that are, set
for you. .-. 7
You will swear off drinking, swear
ing, cheating and grating until the
evening of New Years day when you
pack your new-made resolutions away
in the cotton batting that you used for
the Santa Claus whiskers and wander
down town on the morning of Jan. 2
with the barlow sharpened and up your
sleeve for the first bit of anything that
looks easy and passes your way.
Some of you may decide to be really
good and make it stick, but the ma
jority Of you old reprobates have
played this New Years farce comedy
so often that you have come to regard
it as an essential of the pure sweet
life.
The Dutch Uncle promises nothing
for 1907. If you deserve soaking you
will stop verbal bunch of fves be-
tween your eyes if he can land it before
you duck: If you toe the mark you
will get the violet of Teutonic approval
pinned pin to you WHETHER i you want it or
The congregation may now arise and
sing several stanzas of "Cheer, BOYS.
Cheer, the Gangs All Here,'' omitting
the third and fifth stanzas.
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declined will be those Of star perform
ers and a 10 to l shot that they are
those of Americans. ,s.
Dear old England in sport is about
the hardest loser that ever came second
under the wire. English athletic bodies
have wrapped their sports up in such
a package that the American mouse can
hard dly hope to get to the inside on ac-
count of the entanglements.
Fred Wenck, who, as a member Of
the Yale boxing team that journeyed
acrosx the big pond to contest with the
British collegians several years ago, got
a taste of British sportsmanship, says
concerning the matter: 'That slimit
on the entries is calculated to work
about as effectively as the famous
Rule 10, at Henley, the sole purpose
OF which is to bar out any oarsman or
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end of the lake, lived Charles E. Court
was to row faster than anybody else
on the lake. He organized crews which
raced with Cornell.
In 1875 came Cornell 's first great
success on the water, victory over
twelve other colleges in the great race
on Saratoga lake. It was repeated the
next year, altho many colleges had in
the meantime withdrawn from the row.
ing association, so that only six crews
were entered.
Cornell made a clean sweep, winning
both varsity and freshmen events, while
Charles S. Francis, now United States
ambassador to Austria-Hungary, and
then senior at Cornell, won the single
scull event.
This his wns "a 5 before the day of Courtney
the crew was in the hands of the Cap
tain and stroke, Jack Ostrom, now a
successful consulting engineer in Pitts
burg. -
After 1876 the old Rowing Associa.
tion of American Colleges broke up and
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crew from foreign country that looks
good enough to win. What it's wording
is nobody knows. You get the kibosh,
and if you are foolish enough to ask
for an explanation you are enlightened
about as follows: you are ineligible
under Rule 10.' Dear, old 'Rule 1O';
it has kept many a trophy, in dear old
England that really ought to be in this
country
In victory the English sportsman ap-
pears to be an arrant blowhard In de-
feat he is worse than bear with fly
blown ear. He always wants the pole
and yells fraud if he does not get it.
He has set of amateur laws and regu-
lations that would keep an athletic
saint out of potato race and his over
bearing way of handling his affairs and
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The on-side kick, tho not used gem
orally, shared honors with the forward
pass. while the other changes were
largely incidental. The conference re-
forms furnished other unique features.
The shortening of the season to FIVE
games allowed no championship or test
of the big teams and the loss Of the
training table detracted from the con-
dition Of the men, while the early
practice rule gave some Of the teams
bad handicaps. Seven games would be
an Improvement. and / hope for uni
form time Of beginning practice and the
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since her international victory as the
last real yacht - that raced for the
world-famed prize. She now lies
hauled out in South Boston, under the
supervision of Hollis Burgess. Tho
built nearly twenty years ago, the Vol
,unteer is in good condition. and her
equipment is complete in every respect.
state rooms, and rigged as a sIoop sho h,
carries four officers and eight men. She
could be easily altered to q schooner
for cruising. !. s,->,-