The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-20
SPORTING REVIEW r Z: III \

New York, Dec. 20.-Candidates for
places upon the various winter and
spring sport teams OF the colleges and
universities in all parts of the country
will resume training Immediately after
the Christmas holidays. Places are
pen for varsity c~ontenders in basket
ball, hockey. gymnastics, swimming,
baseball, lacrosse, track and crew COM
binations. and competition will continue
from early in January to late in June.
Some idea Of this athletic activity in
the leading universities OF the east and
west can be gained from the schedule
laid out at Harvard.
The hockey squad is training at the
Boston rink and will soon leave for
practice games at the Syracuse arena,
where several informal inter-varsity
matches will be placed. Track team
candidates are training twice q week
on the board track at Soldiers field
n competitions will be, held semi
monthly with silver cups as prizes for
the leading point winners. Entries will
also be made in a number Of the big
indoor meets at Boston and New York.
Machine and tan practice for the oars
men will open Immediately after the
mtd-year examinations. Gymnasium
n cage practice for the baseball
players will be started early in JAN
uary, while the swimmers will plunge
into the pool about the same time. The
wrestlers, fencers and gymnasts are al
ready on edge for the opening Of their
season Of competitions.
For spartan simplicity the valedic-
tory of the 1913 Notre Dame football
eleven Is a welcome relief from the
fulsome praise accorded teams which
fell short Of the record esta blished by
which scored 267 points to its oppon-
ents II. and defeated West Point, Penn
state and Texas university during the
season was accorded h following
paragraph in the university publication
after its final victory at Austin, Tex:
The 1913 varsity eleven passed into
history Thanksgiving day on Clarke
field, Austin. Its history has been the
most glorious Of all Notre Dame elev-
ems, We cannot say how proud we
feel, but to the men of 10 we say: You
have done your work WE'LL"
AS the result of a recent ruling by
the National Rifle association, the
Princeton university rifle team has
been awarded the eastern non-mllitary
college rife shooting Championship FOR
ment of awards was made when the
score Of the Harvard team made
against the Massachusetts grtcultura
college was protested by the latter on
the ground that the Harvard team used
long rifle cartridges instead Of short,
as called for under the conditions OF
the match. The claim having been
acknowledged, the executive committee
of the National Rife association OF Am
erica threw out the Harvard score and
gave the championship OF the eastern
league to the Massachusetts agricul-
tural college, with Princeton in second
college not having a military depart
ment, which had been won by Harvard,
went to Princeton by this ruling.
a~oro&;1r F~or, vaIa
that the annual Harvard-Yale football
game be played on the Saturday fol-
lowing Thanksgiving instead Of the
Saturday before fails to find favor at
editorial on the subject states:
Time was when Yale played Prince
ton and Harvard on successive Satur-
days and was we'll pleased with the
the game a week would be to make
football q nearly winter sport But,
more than that, the Crimson believes
that any 1engthening of the football
season would be bad from the point OF
view of the players and Of the college
which suffers enough. as 1t is, from the
football mania. A touch of the mania.
such as we have now, Is a splendid
come a dangerous disease itself; we
hope that this agitation will end, like
most Of it's kind, in nothing" ..
Inc IlGLlDer5 OIL Tic WdSAAHS wi CO.
Jefferson college football team, which
ran up the largest total score Of The
season. is to be signally honored'
Through college and town subscrip-
tons gold football watch charms will
be purchased and awarded all the play
ers who participated in the games OF
1913. A special souvenir will also be
presented to halfback SPECIAL who per
sonally scored 1877 Of the total S46
points.
An ultimatum regarding rugby foot
bali at Stanford university was recent
ly issued by Prof. Frank Angel Of the
faculty athletic committee. He said:
tinue to make rugby possible. The
clubs should not be a chopping block
for the university teams. Football con-
tests should not be merely practice
games leading up to the big game be-
tween the universities. II rugby here
sinks to a matter of merely practice
way to San Francisco on a hike for
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