Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16


Shooting OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Yale
Wrestling Observation-Disclosures. Princeton
When one considers the relative i'm
portance Of the four major sports and the
minor ones no fair-minded critic. even a
Yale man, will question the right of
CornellS athletes to rank first this year
II is the first time in Cornells history
that the Ithacans have ever won such
high honors. They are fully entitled to
all the honors that have come their way
Yale and PENNSYLVANIA are the only
other universities that ever won such
high honors in a single year, and when
il Is considered that Cornell had some
claim to the base ball championship as
well, which is here awarded to Prince
ton. il may be stated that Cornclrs 1911
record Is just a little bit superior to
anything ever done by either Pennsyl
vania or Yale. Cornell won the inter-
collegiate track and field championship
In the most sensational meet ever held
in the history of this association The
1thacans totaled :01. points, and We're
responsible for two of the five intercol-
ord. II the 1thacans had won no other
championship hut this they would still
have fame enough left for one year. but
in addition to winning tho honors on
track and field the Ithacans made a clean
sweep of the rowing championship. Not
only did Coach Courtney's men defeat
Harvard. Yale and Princeton in two diff
ferent reeauas. but at Poushkeepsse
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by defeating Columbia in the last 100
yards through better physical condition.
Only once during the year did a Cornell
crew suffer defeat This was i'm the
freshman race, in which they lost to the
Columbia youngsters.
Cornelrs third Victory was i'm the cross
country run. 1t was the Ithacans' elev-
enth victory since the intercollegiate
Association took up cross country run
ming. Only once has Cornell lost this
event That was in 1902. when Vale beat
the Ithacans. 1t seems even easier for
Cornell to win cross country champion
ships than the rowing honors-
After many years of waiting Cornell
last year secured membership in the In
tercollegiate Hockey Association. The
collegians from northern New York show
ed that they had made good use of the
ice facilities which they have on Lake
won practically every game on schedule
and took the intercollegiate hockey
championship with ridiculous ease. Skat-
ing has always been one of the chief
pastimes at Cornell. and inasmuch as
they have great many Canadian stu
dents there with whom hockey is the
favorite sport. il looks as though the
Ithacans would carry off the honors in
this particular field for a good many
years to come. Indeed. it would not be
surprising If Cornell proved as hard to
dislodge the hockey championship as
from the rowing and cross country titles.
Yale Ahead in Minor Sports.
Not one of Yale's athletic championships
belong TO the first division of the major
league sport. The Ellis made their score
OF ~ points by winning the championship
in golf. shooting. gymnastics and tieing
for tennis honors, and winning the swim
ming and water polo title. two sports
which are classed as one In all of these
e,rfS
petition, but the relative Importance of
the minor 10 the major sports is such
that Yale would probably have given all
Of them for one championship in the ma
tor.-
II has been a good many years since Yale
failed to win the intercollegiate champion
ship in foot ball. This year the foot ball
honors go to Harvard in spite OF the fact
that Yale played Harvard a scoreless tie
IN the final match of the year. With the
exception of the Yale game, Harvard did
not meet single team she could not de-
feat Prior TO this game of the year Yale
had been defeated a number of times,
and produced an eleven which was dis
tinctly below Yale standard. Until the
slump of the Harvard team in the final
game of the year the Crimson promised
20 have the strongest eleven which Har
ward had turned out in number of years.
1t would hardly be fair to say that Har-
wards failure to beat Yale was due en-
tirely to a slump on Harvards part. so
the Crimson used very poor generalship.
Yale's eleven did not find itself until
the Princeton game, when il sprung a new
play called the tackles shift" developed
at the University of Minnesota by Harry
Williams. a former Yale foot ball PLAYER
with this play Yale disorganized the
Princeton team, which. like Harvard. had
not been defeated previous to this game
With this play Yale distinctly outrlayed
Princeton, and the effectiveness of this
play was such that the Ellis held Har-
ward TO a nothing nothing score.
Harvard's second intercollegiate cham
pionship was that of lacrosse. This
makes the second year in succession that
the Crimson has won this honor. Tn