The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-20

 l ball, hockey, gymnastics, swimming.
 baseball, lacrosse. track and crew
 combinations, and competition will continue from early in January to i late in June. Some idea of this ath-
 tetc 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 l Boston rink and will soon leave for practice games at the Syracuse arena, | where several informal intervArsity matches will be placed. Track team
 candidates are training twice week on the board track at Soldiers Field and competitions will be held semi
 monthly with silver cups as prizes for the leading point winners. Entries will also be made in number of the big indoor meets at Boston and New York. Machine and tank practice for the oarsmen will open immediately after the mid-year examinations. Gymnasium and cage practice for the | baseball players will be started early in January, while the swimmers will plunge into the pool about the same time. The wrestlers, fencers and gym nasts are already on edge for the opening of their season of compet- itions.
 For spartan simplicity the valedict- ory of the 1913 Notre Dame football eleven is a welcome reIief from the
 fulsome praise accorded. teams which fell short of the record established by the Indiana combination. The team which scored 267 points to it's oppon- ents fl, and defeated West Point, Penn State and Texas University during the season was accorded the following par
 agraph in the University publication
 after it's final vistory at Austin, Texas:
 "The 1913 varsity eleven passed into history Thanksgiving Day on Clarke in history has hRRn the
 most glorious of all Notre Dame elevens We. cannot say how proud we feel but to the men of '13 we say:
 You have done your work we'll As the result of a recent rdling by the National Rifle Association, the
 Princeton University rifle team has been awarded the eastern non-miHtary college rifle shooting championship for the season of 1912-3. The readjustment 1 Of awards was made when the score of the Harvard team made against the l MassachlRsett Agricultural 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 Com mittee of the National Rifle Assoc1a- ton of America threw out the liar yard score and gave the champion ship of the Eastern League to the Mas sachusetts Agricultural College, with Princeton in second place. The special trophy given to the college not having a military department, which had Eeen won by Harvard, went to Princeton by this ruling.
 The suggestion emanating from Yale that the annual Harvard Yale football Ibeforegameg be played on the Saturday following Thanksgiving instead of the
 Saturday before fails to find favor at Harvard. The Harvard Crimson in an editorial on the subject states:
 teTfne was when Yale played Prince ton and Harvard on successive Sat urdays and was well pleased with the arrangement and results. To postpone the game a week would be to make football a nearly winter sport. But, more than that, the Crimson believes that any Iepgthening of the football season would be bad from the point of view of the players and of the college,
 which. suffers enough as it is, from the
 football mania. A touch of the mania, such as we have now, is a, splendid
 counter-irritant, but it could easily
 become a dangerous disease itself We hope that this agitation will end, like
 most of it's kind, in nothing"
 The members of the Washington and
 Jefferson College football team, which ran up the largest total score of the
 season, is to be signally honored. Through college and town subscr1p- tions gold football watch charms will be purchased and awarded all the players who participated in the games of 1913. A special souvenir will also be presented to Ha1fback Spiega1 who personally scored 127 of the total 345
 points.
 An ultmatum regarding rugby foot
 ball at Stanford University was re- cently issued by Prof. Frank Angel
 of the Faculty Tthletic Committee. He
 said:
 'tOn1y a strong rugby union can con
 tinue to make rugby possible. The
 clubs should not be 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. If rugby here sinks to a matter of merely. practice test, Stanford will drop rugby as it did the Americian game of football" The University of Chicago swimmers under Coach White have been trying out the new aquatic game known as water basketball in order to determine whether the game will prove a prac- ticabIe substitute for water polo. Polo was officially abolished by conference ruling two years ago, and since ths@ time eI1OTLS AeaN0 pe0h hAdHS LO 0eCuIe water contest which will prove an equal attraction. Water polo was gen. orally regarded as the toughest inter collegiate sport and has been viewed with much disapprova1 for years. The action of Wesleyan in declining
 to meet Yale in football in 1914 has won approval from a number of the followers of the game at the smaller Eastern universities. The idea of acting as trial horses for the big col Iege elevens grows less attractive to lesser schools each year. Not once in ] a blue moon does victory come to the