The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-17
COLLEGE SPORTS
During PAST Year
Contests of Many Kinds and
the Respective Win
ners of Each.
BULL DOG TIES TIGER
In Football; Cornell First in
Rowing; Penn. in Field;
Brown in Baseball.
BULL DOG TIES TIGER

Among the Eastern colleges the sue
cesses, measured by victories, We're
fairly we'll distributed among the large
field Of contenders in the season of
sports of 1906-07, with Yale teams or
individuals in front in greater vari-
ETY. of competitions than any of the
others. The wearers of the blue, who
do nothing half way, though they meet
with their share of reverses, were the
most versatile in the wide range of
sport in which the colleges compete.
The New York Sun gives the following
summary of the year in college sports.
The season was ushered In with the
annual intercollegiate tennis tourna-
ment In this Columbia and Yale di-
vided the honors, The championship
in singles was won by Columbia, in
doubles by Yale. Next followed the
intercollegiate golf tournament, and
on the links Yale was doubly victori-
Gus, repeating the success Of the pre-
vious tournament The New Haven
players won the team championship,
and Glow Of Yale won the individual
championship, he being new cham
pfon among the colleglans. Also with
the gun did the Yalensians show an
expertness that disposed of rivals. The
tall intercollegiate shoot was won by
Yale; with Princeton second, Pennsyl-
vania third and Harvard fourth. In
a dual shoot, however, Princeton de-
feated Yale.
The football season had history
all its own. It was the first year un-
der the new rules. The fate Of foot
ball was in the balance when the
new code evolved by the committee Of
fourteen was put to the test for the
first time last fall, and quite as much
interest was felt In the working Of
the rules as in the prospects Of the
various teams 1t was more open
and diversified game that came to
light in the fall of 1905, one that call
ed for more speed and startegy and
/ generalship than did the old rules.
The honors in the new football last
fall were shared by Yale and Prince
ton. Those two made the best records.
Neither was defeated. Yale and
Princeton played tie game and beat
everybody else. Yale introduced a
variation Of the forward pass that
was the big feature Of the season. The
Annapolis football doctors were
4 shrewd enough to take up this play,
and 1t helped them materially in their
gridiron conquest Of the West Point
q eleven.
The ranking Of the first ten teams
was as follows: /, Yale and Princeton
8, Harvard; 4, Cornell; 3, Carlisle; 6,
Pennsylvania; 7, Brown; s, Annapolis;
8, West Point; 10, Pennsylvania State,
The Pennsylvania team is deserving
of mention for the splendid brace it
made after a discouraging early sea-
son. There is fine spirit at Penn
sylvania, however, and such braces are
no new thing there. Yale, too, was in
the doldrums at one time, but all the
time was planning her campaign, ex-
perimenting, intelligently with the
new rules and sticking to a we'll con-
ceived policy In spite Of midseason
troubles, and in the end came her re-
S ward The plgskin period was event
full for the unusual number of no score
games, due in part to unfamiliariy
with the new rules and inexperience In
gaining the additional five yards. The
strongest freshman football team
probably ever turned out was that OF
the Yale youngsters. Good freshman
material could not be taken to the var
sity squad under the new freshman
rule, which Of course strengthened
freshman teams. The Yale freshmen
won every game they played and were
not scored OH throughout the sea-
q son.
Haverford won the soccer champion
ship. Once more was Cornell invinci
BILE at cross-eountry running. THOSE
strong lunged and 1.-THE limbed runners
won the annual tussle cross-countr1
over the Princeton course the frs
time the event was held at Princeton
Victory at this sport is an ofttold tall
at Cornell, who has won at it more
than all the other teams put together
Pennsylvania was second last fall
Yale third, Harvard fourth, Columbis
fifth, Princeton last, Jones of Pennsyl
vania won the individual champion
snip.
In chess Yale was laggard Har
= ward and Columbia do most of the
winning in the 3our cornered college
chess tourney Columbia won las
winter with the fine record of II l..
games won and IL lost Harvard