The sun., 1908-11-15

ib!e fund Of competent runners.
In 1904 Pennsylvania was second TO
Cornell. with N points, an even wider
margin than that of the year before.
Yale was third. with 81 points; Harvard
fourth, only one point worse, and Column
bia In last place. with 73 points. Princeton
didn't qualify team.
The next year the field was enlarged
to seven colleges, the Massachusetts
Institute Of Technology coming in.
Again 1t was Cornell. with little larger
score. however. The Ithacans came In,
2. Q. 0 and IL, for q total OF 20 points.
Harvard was a fairly good second. with
IS points. Yale was away back In third
place. with 81 points. and NJ, /. T., the
new conner. fourth. with 6S points. Penn
sylvania, fifth. had 70 points. and Colum-
bia, for change. finished ahead OF
Princeton, with IS points. against III.
In 1905 a change was made from Travers
Island to Princeton for the run. II was
deemed better to have it on college
grounds II possible. As it was easily
possible the course was established at
Princeton. Pennsylvania gave the Cornell
men something to think about because
the first three Of the Penn men were In
before Cornell's second man finished.
IL stanton Of Pennsylvania had been
been able to finish better than seventeenth
| IL would have been all over with Cornell.
II made a rather exciting time when
Cornell's first four were all in, with q
total OF % points, and Pennsylvania
had three In. for total OF points, and
was looking eagerly for Stanton. The
scores we're Cornell, 2. s, and 3, making
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rs. NJ !. L. got up to third place, with 90
points. Yale was fourth. with II points;
Columbia fifth, with 122 points, and Prince
ton last, with l26 points.
! For the run last year the regulation
was changed 80 that slx men were TO count
for team. II 10 not known whether this
was believed to be good move to force
the development Of better teams or just
what it was intended to accomplish.
In any event 1t did not beat Cornell. but
rather made the margin in favor OF the
lthacans greater than usual Cornell
scored 80 points, with 2. 8. 8. o. 10 and i3
II 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
together a squad of men able to run fast
but all OF about equal ability. Scoring
the men all close together well toward
the front is the policy that has made
NOTnellB teams 30 bIcCfbSiuI.
NEWCOMERS FOURTH
Pennsylvania was second. with III
points; Yale third, with 1886; Syracuse
fourth. with l73; Harvard fifth, with 1872
Columbia sixth. with 227; NJ. |. t., seventh,
with 22s. and Princeton last with 23l
Ii is to be noted that Syracuse, new
conner, finished fourth, the fate that seems
to be accorded to the colleges in their
first year OF competing. Harvard was
fourth in 1902. NJ. II. fourth IN ise, ard
Syracuse fourth last year. The Miohi-
gan men may we'll hope that this is not n
omen, because this is to be their first
year in the run.
This year the rule has been changed
80 as to provide for teams of five men
only. This IL with the idea OF encourag-
ing the smaller colleges, which. under the
older condition Of six men required to
make a team, would hardly lave a chance
to develop a good team more than once
every two or three years. IL il likely
to be matter of indifference to the col
leges where running IL strongly in
| trenched because they can ordinarily
! raise a good squad Of from five to nine
men. The larger the number Of con-
testing colleges the larger the number
OF starters. and il is more advisable to
| have seven to start and FIVE To qualify,
when there are ten or dozen colleges
| in the run. than TO have nine TO start and
six to qualify. 1t will prevent crowding
! the course.
There is one thing that il not entirely
approved Of by Cornell for one. That
is having the intercollegiate race year
after year over the same course. The
| Ithacsiis would like to have 1t changed
about, coming for one year, say. to Ithaca
the next to Philadelphia, thereafter to
Cambridge. then to New Haven and so
on around O. course it might be too
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when three Of the colleges which enter
teams are In New York State and the others
close at hand, but il Michigan goes to
all the bother OF sending a team from
Ann Arbor for several years II might
be fair to award the race on some occa-
sion to the Wolverines.
The chief argument in favor Of having
the courses shifted around Ia that in time
each college would have a course Of regu-
lation intercollegiatasype or conforming
as closely to IL as mature permits Then
in practice and dual runs the men would
be training over the same sort Of course
that they would meet in the heintercollegiate
championships. which would be valuable
for them and for the future of consistent
running. When a college trains partly
over macadam roads, with very little
chance to run over real country, IL comes
as an entirely new experience when the
| Princeton course is encountered. But
by encouraging the colleges in turn to
provide a real cross-country course. great
benefit to cross-country running would
be accomplished.
Princeton does something in this line
with it's interscholastic cross-countTy race.
The third OF these was held recently
This Is over the first lap Of the intercol-
| legiate course, a distance OF 81 miles.
The Princeton run has grown 30 that this
v ear twelve schools were entered. Penn
sylvania also has charge Of several inter-
scholastic runs that are held in and around
Philadelphia.
LoYALTY's LIMITS,
The Hdrrnrd Bulletin recently reprinted
an article by Dean Briggs headed -Ath-
letics and College loyalty" In IL
were contained some epigrammatical ex-
pressions Interestingly put. For in
stance: Football as played in America
to-day between schools or colleges is not
a mere game; still less Ia il a mere exhi-
bition OF hard trained strength and skill
II is to the typical undergraduate mind
the supreme expression Of college 10y atty
and every thing that touches IL becomes
a question OF allegiance to an alma mater
An intercollegiate contest assumes In the
minds OF play ers. coaches. students
graduates and the affiliated public the i'm
portance OF war.
Later: zone shing. however. should
games, football and baseball are strategic
and strategy Ii as much a part of them
as Of war and chess. Nothing could be
unfairer than to inveigh against them as
purely physical and brainless games. yet
TO resent in them as dishonest the playing
Of wit against wit. OF intellect against
| intellect, the strategy Of the moment OF