Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25

1t is unfortunate that there is no inter-
collegiate association for the control OF
foot ball and a schedule providing for q
meeting between all the big colleges Of
the land east. particularly those known
as the Big Six-Harvard, Yale. Pennsyi-
vania, Princeton, Cornell and Dartmouth
If there were such a schedule the settle
ment of the championship argument
would be an easy matter. Now the ques-
ton Is left to the individual judgment Of
the critics and a COMPARISON of records.
Sometimes the critics are hopelessiy di-
vided on the merits of teams which did
not meet. This year, however. there is no
room for two opinions as to Harvards
right to be ranked first. The Crimson
eleven went through the season with
only a single defeat and only one tie
game. No other big college had such 4
record Pennsylvania made the nearest
approach to it, for, with the exception
of losing the preliminary game. the
Quakers duplicated Harvard's record
their tie score being the result of the
Michigan game. Even pennsylvania en-
thusiasts are not inclined to dispute Har-
wards right to the foot ball title.
There is even more room for argu-
ment In the award OF base ball honors
But when one considers the games won
and lost for the season, the character
of the various schedules, first place must
be given to Pennsylvania, and the critics
were quite unanimous on this point
PENNSYLVANIA played all the big colleges
but Harvard. Yale was beaten twice.
Cornell two out of three games, Prince
ton once and tied once and Brown twice.
The Quakers lost an early-season game
TO Columbia and another to La1ayette
and one to Cornell Otherwise their rec
ord was we'll nigh perfect. 1t is In base
ball more than any other sport that the:
college world realizes the dire need OIL
an intercollegiate association and sched-
ule so that the ranking OF the teams
might be made according TO the humoeT
of games won and lost.
The only major sport about which
there is never any argument over the
championship is track athletics In IL tne
contestants for the premier title All meet
on the same terms and their standing Is
determined by the number Of points
scored Pennsylvania won the champion
ship I'm 1910 with a score OF 2'Es poihCs'
Yale finishing second with 2o1a, Michigan
third with 20 and Princeton toor. URN Win a
markabIe in that for the rrst time on
record they were won with score or
less than 80 points.
The one Individual feature 10 the l9lo
meet was the record-breaking perform
anre of Nelson of Yale In the pole vault.
Nelson cleared the bar at the height OF
~ feet 81 inches, which made new IN
tercolIeyiate mark, but did not equaI the
mark Of IL feet "a inches made by Dray
~ Vale Two wears ago. The meeting,
however was also marked by the Won
derful running of Craig or Mlcnigan. VINO
enualed the worlds record or Il 10 sec
onds for the 230-yard dash. In aooition
IL vas featured by the unusual eloseness
~ competetion in all the events, ana TINS
in srite of the fact that only one record
was broken and another equaied;
Although there Is no 1ntercoheeia.e as
ISOLATION for rowing, Cornell easily de-
Serycd TO be ranked first on the water.
Cornell not only won the Poughkeepsie
regatta on the Hudson. but she deci.
siyeIy beat Harvard In duai race az
Cambridge and Harvard later deleaIeo
Vie at New London. This double VIC
torv made Cornelrs title without INV:
II il 10 a certain extent a matter OF
Judgment as to how the other crews
should be ranked, but pennsylvania p,uo-
~ deserves to be ranked second. Inc
~ace between Pennsylvania and Corneii
on the Hudson was one OF the most re-
markab'e races ever roWeu III Oil! ie
ra,fa- From start TO finish there was not
b.tw.en the two shells. In fact. the cox
swain OF the Pennsylvania crew was
never further back than theeNo. . man IN
the Cornell boat. In view OF tne iacL
that Cornell easily beat Harvard .! nan
a dozen or more lengths IN TWO miles,
PennsvIyania is ranked second on the
water.
The year 1910 saw far more interest
taken in the minor sports than was ever
known before Hardly more than dozen
generally despised. Not only were but
few sports fostered outside the majors.
but these few had hard time to exist
because the colleges did not consider them
worth the expenditure OF any money and
they were not popular enough to be self
supporting. Since then the idea that COL
Iege men should have great variety of
sports to choose from has taken root and
spread with such amazing rapidity that
today the leading universities foster
nearly twenty different sports. The I'm
mense profits which nearly all the big COL
leges get from foot ball. and in some in
stances from base ball as well. solved the
problem Of maintaining these other
sports.
II was in the minor sports that Yale
carried off the most championships. The
Fills won first place in golf, shooting and
swimming. besides tying for first honors
in tennis with Princeton. Had Yale not
withdrawn from the wrestling association
II is likely that her representatives would
have won the mat championship as we'll
Columbia likewise made wonderful
showing in the minor sports. winning the
cl ampionship in basket ball, association