The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
The YEAR IN COLLEGE SPORT.
HONORS EVENLY DISTRIBUTED
AMONG THE LEADERS.

Yale Superior on the Gridiron, Princeton
on the Diamond, Cornell on the Water
Tho Lesser Sports and How They ne.
suited -Wide Variety OF Competition.
There was no lions share Of honors for
any one or two universities in the wide range
Of Eastern intercollegiate sport for the
season Of 10000. For the most part,
those honors were confined to that group
Of big institutions composed OF Harvard,
Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Cornell,
and therein the season was like its predeces-
sors. With the greater number Of students
at these universities and their better facili-
ties for preparation, it is but natural that
they should do most Of the winning; but
the glory Of the diverse camp ign which
began in September and ended in June
was attractively and fairly evenly divided
among the five. Even in baseball n Of
the five bore off the %laurels, and baseball
Is one sport in which institutions Of lesser
numerical scope make pronounced inroads
into the prestige Of the leaders.
Yale was foremost in football in the East
and probably in the whole country, with
Pennsylvania a close second, and football
doubtless, in point Of popular interest Is
the chief college sport. In baseball, the
Tigers Of Princeton, particularly proficient
on the diamond nearly always, were the
leaders. In athletics and rowing Cornell
was premier. Harvard, like Pennsylvania,
went through the season without winning
any championship in the major sports,
| unless hockey be so rated, but, like Penn
| sylvania, was prominent at all times.
There are. in connection with the year
| In college sport, certain developments which,
for want Of q better term, may be called
dual onshoots, such as the prolonged riv-
airy between Harvard and Yale, Yale and
! Princeton, Harvard and Pennsylvania,
and Pennsylvania and Cornell. They have
an interest all their own. In the four lead
ing contests Of skill and s~trength-foot-
ball, baseball, rowing and track athletics
Harvard and Yale broke even. Yale tri-
umphed over Harvard on the gridiron
and on the diamond; the Crimson rose above
the Blue on the water and on the track.
Yale freshman squads had an especially
successful season. The youngsters of Old
Eli vanquished Harvard and Princeton at
football, at baseball; and their crew won
from Harvard and from Columbia.
Yale trimmed the Tiger at football and
at track athletics, but the Yale varsity bal
team succumbed to Old Nassau. In track
athletics Yale was more accomplished thar
Princeton, and Pennsylvania was too much
for Harvard in football, but the latter wa
better at baseball. Pennsylvania exoellec
Cornell at football, but ave way to the
puissant Itnacans on the water. So 1t
went, defeats and counter defeats leaving
no contestant without consolation and add
ing to the complexity Of the situation In
its entirety.
The season was ushered in last fall Will
the intercolleg gate tennist tournament. Penn
sylvania won the championship in both sin
giles and doubles, Dewhurst bearing Of thu
palm in the singles championship and Dew
hurst and Register being successful in thu
, doubles. The annual golf tournament fol
lowed quickly on the heels Of the tennis
and on the links the representatives Of Yal,
scored a double victory. Yale won the team
championship, aud with Abbott capturet
the individual honors. Golf is q oolleg'
sport in which Harvard, Yale and Princetol
have had pretty much Of a monopoly II thu
line of winning.
The college cross country championship
decided In the fall Of the year, found histor,
repeating itself. Cornell was again su
preme, though the individual champion
ship was won by Hail Of Yale. The CREATE
or team honor went as usual to Cornell. 4
a approach t. a monopoly exists in thil
sport also, but Yale has cut in on Cornell
Twice Q year the colleges meet at b traps
In the fall intercollegiate shoot Psnnayl'