The Washington herald., 1908-07-19

A@EaaN6 EDIIlEEElLfuE HllENS II lA4c G1e--
son Of 1S07-Os Yale showed more versa
tiiity than any Of the Eastern colleges.
The Eearers OF the Blue won mora inter-
collegiate championships than any of
the others. and held their own IN con-
tests with single rivals
There are nov so many different kinds
OF sports IN which the colleges engage
that the season from September 10 JU-
inclusive, virtually Is an unbroken e.
but that does not mean that students
are engaged IN sports from first 70 last
because the various paStimes appeal 70
many different tastes The period Of &C
tivity for one is a period Of rest for an
other.
Beginning with tennis IN the fan. there
come football, golf, shooting. cross-coun-
Try running. chess. basketball, hockey,
gymnastics, wrestling. soccer football.
swimming. lacrosse. track athletics. base
ball, and rowtng-an extensive field. IL
deed.
OF these, Harvard IN tennis: Yale N
football. golf. trap shooting. hockey, SOC
cer-in which she tied for the champion
ship with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, and
water polo; Cornell n cross-country run
ming. track athletics, and chess; Colum-
bia In rife shooting and chess; Princeton
IN gymnastics; Pennsylvania IN basket
ball and swimming; Princeton and Ford
ham IN baseball, and Harvard and Syra-
cuse II rowing. were, in brief. the win
ners Of the holors.
Harvard won the intercollegiate tennis
tournament last fall, both in singles and
doubles Gardner being the Crimson
standard bearer IN the singles and Das-
nament was held soon afterward, and
here Yale repeated her successes Of the
year previous Yale won the team cham
pionship on the links. and Knowles, OF
Yale, won the individual championship.
However. the fall season. from Septeu-
Der 70 December, was given over chiefly
10 football. the most popular and most
virile Of all college sports By beating
both Harvard and Princeton. BY going
through the season without a defeat and
by being scored on by only one opponent
Yale clearly won the Eastern gridiron su-
premacy.
Interest throughout the country was
keen during the whole time. no less 50
70 see how the new rules would work-in
their second season than in finding out
which were the best teams.
Great Year for Football.
Football this season. as previously, led
all the rest IN general interest though
rowing. baseball, and track athletics-the
other major sports-aI have many fol-
lowers and not a few who prefer them 10
football The football atteudances last
fal ran from 500 at the important games
10 $500, showing IT'S great popularity
The chief happenings in the East in a
successful football season were Yates
defeat Of Princeton in which the Blue
made a notable uphill fight in the second
half Harvard's good fight against the
superior Yale team: the Nays clean
cut victory over the Army; P-fnceton-s
defeat by Cornell and Pennsylvania fine
rally after a discOuraging early season.
eliminating in a decisive defeat Of Cor
nell; the Indians victory over Harvard.
DartmOUth's victory over Harvard; West
Points tie game with Yale, in which
neither scored; Pennsylvania victory
over Michigan IN a stubborn game, the
Indians overwhelming defeat Of Pennsyl-
vania and the defeat Of the Indians by
Princeton one week later.
Matters OF moment in the playing OF
the game We're the new strategic ma1eu-
vers connected with the forward pass and
the fake kick. The game survived well
the second test Of the new rules and
though there was recurrent talk of this
or that big college dropping Il, Il IS not
likely that such a course in itself would
have any bad effect at all on its con
tinUed survival. Harvard OF no Harvard.
there is no reason why, with proper safe
guards. II should not continue 70 flourish
The annual intercollegiate CrOss-country
run was held over the Princeton course.
and again was won by the hardy men
from Cornell The score made BY the
Ithacans was 80 points. Pennsylvania
was second with 81. Yale third with l35,
Syracuse fourth with I73. Harvard fifth
with 1s2, Columbia sixth with 2Z7. Massa-
chusetts Institute Of Technology seventh
with 22S and Princeton last with 81. Has
kins, Of the Pennsylvania team. finished
first. and in record time for the course,
IS minutes Is seconds Pricr TO the
championship run there were dual cross
country runs between Yale and Princeton
and between Harvard and Yale. Prince
ton beat Yale and Yale beat Harvard
Yale Had Trap Shooters.
The fail intercollegiate shoot also was
held in November, and the Yale men
proved the best at the traps. Their score
was 2l5 kills 10 Pennsylvania s 1s2. Prince
tons Isl, and Harvard's Isl Hebard. OF
Yale, was the best individual shooter Of
the field There were dual shoots in which
Yale beat Princeton and Harvard beat
Princeton
In December the more placid pastirne Of
chess engaged the attention Of the col
legians. Columbia winning one tourna-
ment. with Yale second Princeton next.
and then Harvard Cornell won the three
c0rnered tournament. with Pennsylvania
and Brown next in order.
Something new in intercollegiate strife
was a rifle shooting tournament in Madi-
son Square Garden at the sportsman's
Show. and here Columbia came to the
front The Columbia men scored 2s7
points out Of a possible 100. George Wash
ington was second with 80 and Cornell
next with Ss7< Harvard's score was 365
and Yale's 347-
The basketball Championship Of the
year was won by Pennsylvania, her team
going through the schedule without a de-
feat. Columbia and Yale tied for second
place. and Cornell and Princeton for last
place Subsequently there was a series OF
games between Pennsylvania champions
Of the East. and the University Of Chi
cago, champions Of the Middle West. The
Chlcagoans were the victors after a stub
born struggle.
An interesting season Of wrestling was
provided by the college grapplers. In a
dual meet Princeton beat PENNSYLVANIA.
Yale beat Princeton. Yale beat Pennsyi-