The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-23
SPORT S
HAS
GREAT RECORD
HAS Won MORE ATHLETIC HON
ORs THAN ANY OTHER UNINER-
SITY THIS YEAR.

Cornell .uIs year has won more high
houUrs and had more consistent rec
ord of success iu Eastern interscholis-
tic athletics than any oher university
She now holds the championship in
Two of the four major" sports, row.
ing and track athletics, and a high
place iu the other two, being ranked
second iu base bail ana fourth I'm foot
ball. OF the minor sports Cornell is
first m the cross country running and
lacrosse. and is tied with two other
colleges for the cricket championship.
Thus out of the twelve generally rec
cgulzad college sports the Ithacans
hold four and a third championships.
$50 other Eastern colleges comes any
where near this record.
DO was not so many years ago that
the Ithaca university was practically
unhe8ri of iu athletics except i'm the
single branch of rowing. Cornell has
had winning crews for thirty years
Then the Ithacans came TO the front I'm
1899 with a winning cross country
/ team and in this branch of sport they
have been defeated only once since.
I'm 1905 they COMPOUNDED the prophets
by taking the first place in the inter-
COLLEGIATE track and field meet This
championship Cornell retains, having
won by an increased score last May.
! The oldest sport at Cornell is row.
! ing and that has been going on since
| 1871. three years after the university
was iu8ugurated In 1875 came Cor
nelrs first great success on the water,
la victory over twelve other colleges in
] the great race on Saratoga lake. It
was repeated the next year, although
many colleges had in the meantime
] Withdrawn from the rowing associa-
! ton. so that only six crews We're en-
/ tered Cornell made clean sweep.
/ After 1876 the old Rowing association
OF American Colleges broke up, and
Craftsmanship Of Cornell declined for
lack Of rivalry.
In the eighties the sport was revived
and Courtney was engaged as perma-
nent coach. COrnelrs record Of success
since then has been phenomenal. She
has won race after race with rival col
leges, and has broken her own records
for three and four miles repeatedly.
Twice the crew has got the Henley
fever" in 1881 and again in 1S95-but
both trips abroad were fiascos, and for
ten years past Cornell has been con-
tent to row at home. Yale and Har-
ward were beaten by Cornell in 1891
and 1898? Syracuse won the Pough-
keepsia regatta I'm 1904, but the Mex
year Cornell took revenge in an over
whelming victory. Her crew finished q
quarter of a mile ahead Of Syracuse
Pennsylvania, Columbia, Wisconsin
and Georgetown. Another victory was
won last year. The varsity crew also
beat Harvard in 1905 and 1906.
1t was I'm 1905 that Cornell came tC
the front in rtack athletics. Under the
coaching Of John F. Moakley, who had
been engaged in 1899 the track squad
had grown consistently better year by
year. In cross country running there
have been eight intercollegiate con-
tests in as many years and Cornell has
captured seven Of them, being beaten
only in 1901, when Yale and Pennsyl-
vania finished ahead of her.
The base ball team of last season lost
only three Of it's important games, two
to Princeton and one to Yale. For the
past three years the foot ball team has
been coached by Glenn S. Warner, who
graduated from Cornell in 1895, and
made his reputation as a gridiror
coach and strategist at the Carlisle
Indian school This year the team
went through the season with but one
defeat, being beaten by Princeton, Il
to 3.
Cornell men are proudest, not of the
magnitude or number of their victo'
ries, but Of the cleanness of them, and
of the fact that all their teams arr
free from any faint of foul play or pro
fessionalism. Attention has been call
r ed to the fact that of all big foot bal
teams in the East this fall, Cor
nell was the only one which did no
: have a man ordered off the field b,
an official.