Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
HARVARD TEAMS
SHOWEDSTRONG
IN ATHLETICS
Wearers of Crimson Captured
Four College Championships
for 19l2-1913.

~ OSION, MASS, July - ne
X wearers of the Harvard Grim
son exceIled on the intercol-
legiate athletic field for the academic
year of 1912-13. Out of sixteen pos
sible athletic championships the men
from Cambridge won four outright
and divided honors for the fifth.
Harvard triumphed in football, cross
country running, hockey and associa-
ton football, in addition to dividing
the lacrosse title with Johns Hop
ldns.
Since Johns Hopkins declined the
Harvard challenge to play off the tie
sonably be awarded to Harvard, but
when the Harvard challenge reached
Baltimore the Southern team had dis
banded and was under no obligation
to play off the tie.
The University of Pennsylvania
scored first in three championships
and therefore ranks second to Har-
ward, with Yale, Cornell and Prince
ton tied with two championships each.
For purposes of computation each
championship is regarded as a single
point which would make the score
of the eight universities figure as
follows: Harvard, 10; Pennsylva-
mia, 3; Yale 2; Princeton, 2; Cor
nell, ,; Syracuse, /; Columbia. J.;
Johns Hopkins, 1-2.
Poor Year for Yale.
Not only did Harvard win outright
more championships than any of its
rivals, but the Crimson athletes fin
ished second in one of the major
sport championships they did not
win, besides making a uniformly high
record in the many minor sports. In
rowing Harvard certainly deserves to
rank third, while in track athletics its
team did finish second. In baseball
the Crimson beat Yale in two out of
three games, and while the champion
ship of the diamond is given to the
Blue on the seasons record the
Crimson deserves to rank second or
third. AS a further distinction for
| Harvard, the Crimson beat Yale in
three out of four major sports.
Of four major sports.
The Crimson won in football base
ball and rowing leaving Yale supreme
only on the track but Harvard made
some amends for this by beating out
Yale in the l. c. A. A. a. A. track
championships. It was a fat year for
Harvard and a mighty lean one for
Yale.
There isn't any room for dispute
over the majority Of the champion
ship titles here awarded. In practi-
cally all Of the minor sports there
were associations which arranged
schedules that left no doubt as to the
competitor winning first place.
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baseball, rowing and track athletics
this was possible only in track ath-
letics, but in the three others the
supremacy Of the teams to which the
! honor is awarded was sufficient 10
leave no room for dispute.
Harvard was entitled to the SUI
premacy in football by virtue of going
through the season undefeated and
beating both Princeton and Yale in
decisive fashion. This was a record
such as no other team in the country
made.
5rickIey Football Hero.
There were two or three other
teams which finished the season I'M
defeated, but their opponents We're
not in Harvard's class Harvard 5
1912 eleven was one of the best com
/ binatiOns ever produced at Cam
| bridge 1t was an all-rOund team,
| excelling its opponents in every de-
partment of the game, whether punt
ing, drop and place kicking, end run
ming or line plunging.
At the same time there was one
individual on the eleven who deserves
to be immortalized in Harvard's foot
ball history This was Charles Brick
| lev. who. although only a sophomore,
shone with the brillianCy Of a Coy or
| a Poe.