Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-15

was second; Pennsylvania, with IS, third;
Harvard, with So. fourth; Princeton, with
70. fifth. and Columbia, with 10, sixth. It
was Harvard's first appearance In the
cross-country race.
Then the run was moved TO Travers
Island over a course rather more like real
cr~oss-country. There were roads and fields
and woods and the like to go through, and
the difference TO Cornell was to be seen
Immediately. The Ithacans promptly won,
with the next TO lowest scoro possible for
q four-man team. That is TO say. they
finished first. second. fourth and fifth.
third place going to Hail OF Yale. Harvard
was second with seventh, ninth, tenth and
eleventh, a very consistent performance
for 81. Yale. was third, with 46, earned by
third, thirteenth. fourteenth and sixteenth.
Princeton, with IS. Pennsylvania, with 100.
and Columbia, with H., brought up the
rear.
Low Scores by Cornell.
Cornell repeated the 1908 score the very
next year, Hail Of Yale again intervening
in third place. It was another runner who
won for Cornell this time, Newma 1t Is
a curiosity of Cornell cr~oss-country teams
that year after year men como up. make
an eNCellenL EnOWluB diiu tio dAOp OaN "
sight, to be replacedtby some one else just
as good. Moakley appears to have an in
~exhaustIble fund OF competent runners up
at his shop.
In 1904 Pennsylvania was second to Cor
nell, with Al points, an even wider margin
than that of the year before. Yale was
third with 81 points, Harvard fourth, only
one point worse, and Columbia in last
! place with 70 points. Princeton didn't quail
fly a team.
The next year the field was enlarged to
seven colleges, the Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology coming in. Again 1t was
Cornell, with a little larger score, however.
The Ithacans came in, 2, 6, Q and II, for a
total Of 20 points. Harvard was a fairly
good second. with So points. Yale was
away back in third place. with 81 points,
and Massachusetts Institute Of Technology,
the new conner, fourth. with IS points.
Pennsylvania, fifth, had 20 points, and Co
lumbia. for a change, finished ahead Of
Princeton, with IS points, against Ill.
In 1906 a change was made from Travers
Island to Princeton for the run. 1t was
deemed better to have It on college
grounds il possible. AS it was easily pos
slble, the course was established at Prince
ton. Pennsylvania gave the Cornell men
something to think about, because the first
three of the Pennsylvania men we're in be-
fore Cornell's second man finished. II
Stanton of Pennsylvania had been able to
finish better than seventeenth it would
have been all over with Cornell. 1t made a
rather exciting time when Cornells first
four were all in, with a total of % points.
and Pennsylvania had three in for a total
of s points and was looking eagerly for
Stanton. The scores were: Cornell, 2, 8,
Z and 8. making %; Pennsylvania. 1, 3,
and II, making rs; Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology got third up to place, with
Sc points; Yale was fourth, with II points;
Columbia fifth, with 122 points, and Prince
ton last, with 1876 points.
For the run last year the regulation was
changed SO that six men were to count
for a team. 1t is not known whether this
was believed to be a good move TO force
the development of better teams or just
what 1t was intended to accomplish. In
any event 1t did not beat Cornell, but
rather made the margin In favor of the
1thacans greater than usual. Cornell
scored 80 points, with 2. 3, 8, 6, 10 and 13
1t was to have been expected that the
bigger the teams required the better Cor.
nell would show up, because the apparent
policy of the Ithacans has been to get to-
gether a squad Of men able to run fast
but all about OF equal ability. Scoring the
men all close together well toward tn,
front is the policy that has made Cornell
teams so successful.
Newcomers Fourth.
Pennsylvania was second with 81 points
Yale third with 1S5, Syracuse fourth with
ia, Harvard fifth with 1872, Columbia sixth
with 27, Massachusetts, Institute of Tech.
nology seventh with 2s, and Princeton
| In 81 NTH OQI IN t. - - 49, c.
cuse, a newcomer. finished fourth, the
fate that seems to bt accorded to the col.
leges in their first year Of competing
Harvard was fourth in 1902. Massachusetts
Institute of Technology fourth In 1906 and
Syracuse fourth last year. The Michigan
men may we'll hope that this is not al
omen. because this is to be their first yeai
in the run.
THIS year the rule has been changed SC
as to provide for teams of five men only
This is with the idea of encouraging tn,
smaller colleges, which, under the Older
condition of six men required to make 9
3 team, would hardly have a chance to de,
velop a good team more than once every
| two or three years. 1t is likely to be {
: matter of indifference to the colleges
, where running is strongly intrenched be
} cause they can ordir arily raise a gooC
4 squad of from five to nine men. TIL,
: larger number of contesting colleges natur
{ ally the larger the number Of starters, ant
IT is more advisable to have seven to star
and five to qualify, when there are tel
or a dozen colleges in the run, than t.
have nine to start and six to qualify. I
t will prevent crowding the course, SO l.
speak.
$ There is one thing that Is not entirel,
r approved of, by Cornell for one. Tha
g Is having the intercollegiate race year afte
t year over the same course. The Ithacan
would like to have it changed about, com
e ing for one year, say. to Ithaca, the mex
to Philadelphia, thereafter to Cambridge
II then to New Haven, and so on around
y OF course 1t might be too much to expec
n to have It go to Ann Arbor when tire
IA of the colleges which enter teams are 4