The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-14
The YEAR In COLLEGE SPORT
CONTESTS or MANY KINDS AND
rae WINNERS THEREOF.
Islo and Princeton Make the Bes, showIpx
IN Football Cornell First I'm Rowing
snd Pennsylvania In Athletics -8rOwn
the Champion ON the Dt,mond-

W" O'"'ss'Nsntt IN AtnIettcs -1rOwn
me ON the Dismond.
Among the Eastern colleges the suc-
Cesses. measured by victories, were fairly
well distributed among the large field of
Contenders in the season Of sports OF
lO8-07, with Yale teams or individuals
in front in a greater variety of competitions
than any OF the others. The wearers Of
the blue. who do nothing half way. though
they meet with their share of rever.es
were the most versatile in the wide range
Of sport in which the colleges compete
In the matter Of range the field il en-
tensively covered. but not entirely so.
Some day perhaps il will be more extern
slvely covered than now, for 10 long IA
sporting tests OF skill. speed. strength.
endurance the other qualifications
That count in the results continue to be a
healthy. outlet for energy and spirits there
IA no reason why room should not be made
FOR additional competitions, provided they
are kept within reasonable bounds.
Time was when billiards was a form OF
college competition. Away back in ante
beSlum times. or whereabouts, there was n
billiard match between Harvard and Yale.
There were two players on each side. and
Harvard won. In polo and Yachting there
was no college competition his year,
though there ave been such.
Ethically the season, like its predecessors
was not without its faults, but in the main
the tone OF the season of 1905 OF was good
The competitions for the most part were
conducted in a clean, honorable NAME
Tit desire to win was there and the desire
10 win is quite compatible with sport for
sports sake-the desire to win squarely
and fairly. There were the usual shafts of
criticism hurled at college sport. some of
II warranted and some unjust and uncalled
for. American college sport il con-
Quoted on quite as high a plane az
college sport is anywhere. and the pro-
motors and managers OF il have no need
20 go outside their own country for in
structions on how TO conduct affairs.
The season was ushered in with the annual
intercollegiate tennis tournament. In this
olumb and Yale divided tile honors.
The championship in singles was won by
columbia, in doubles by Yale. Next fol-
bwed the intercollegiate golf tournament
End on the links Yale was doubly victorious.
repeating the success Of the previous tourna-
nnent. The New Haven players won the
team championship, and Glow of Yale won
the individual championship, he being a
new champion among the collegians. Also
with the gun did the Yalensians show an
experiences that disposed Of rivals. The
fall intercollegiate shoot was won by Yale,
with Princeton second, Pennsylvania third
and Harvard fourth. In a dual shoot, how
ever, Princeton defeated Yale.
The football season had a history all its
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rules. The fate OF football was in the bal
ance 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
a. In the prospects Of the various teams. u
vas a more open and diversified game that
came to light in the fall Of 1900, one that
called for more speed and strategy and
generalship than did the old rules.
The ten yard rule, the creation Of Walter
amp, was the measure that did most TO
bring about the improvement in the game.
On IL depended other changes in tactics
that opened up the game and made it far
better as a spectacle and less rough. The
season had it's injuries TO participa nts.
Football hardly will be football should it
ever become a game in which injuries are
foreign to it; but there were fewer accidents
under the reform code, fewer fatalities and
fewer serious injuries. That result was one
change for the better that spoke volumes
for the new rules, and 80 far as can be
judged from one season there is less danger
to life and limb in the revised game.
The neutral zone, emanating from Har-
ward, played a big part in improving the
ga me itself and the quality Of its sports
msnship. Determined efforts were made
to improve the sportsma nship Of the game,
and they we're not without their reward.
There still il room for improvement, how
ever. but the rules have lone much, and
il il up TO the contestants themselves to
keep up the good work. The new forward
pass was one Of the playing innovations
that raised the game in popular estima-
tion, as was the o.Side kick, both measures
brought the ball more into the open.
As a spectacle and a competition the re-
vised game Of football is superior to Rugby
or any other pursuit Of the pigskin.
Rugby was adopted in California and
played by the two leading universities Of
that State. accounts as to whether II was a
success or a failure being contradictory.
to transplant il to this country
have not been successful so far. The as
game il making much more head
way among the colleges. not as a game to
the present one. but as M to he
ca rried on for its own sake. Many OF the
colleges now a soccer teams, and more
are likely to rave them.
The honors in the new football last fall
we're shared by Yale and Princeton. Those
two made the best records. Neither was
Yale and Princeton played a tie
and beat everybody else. Yale intro
duced a variation Of the forward pass that
was the big feature Of the season. The An
n apolis football doctors were shrewd
enough 10 take up this play, and 1t helped
them materially in their gridiron conquest
Of the West Point eleven
The ranking of the first ten teams was as
I, Yale and Princeton; 3, Harvard;
Z Cornell; S. Carlisle; 9, Pennsylvania; Z,
Brown; 3, Annapolis; Q, West Point; 10,
State.
The Pennsylvania team is deserving OF
mention for the splendid brace it made
after a discouraging early season. Their
il a fine spirit at Pennsylvania. however.
and such braces are no new thing there.
Yale. too, was in the doldrums at one time,
hut all the time was planning her campaign,
Experimenting intelligently with the new
rules and sticking to a we'll conceived policy
IN spite OF midseason troubles. and in the
end came her reward. The pigskln period
was ~eventful for the unusual number OF no
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