The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-27
RECORD OF HARVARD
ATHLETIC TEAM S
Varsity Club Publishes Its First
Book, Which Contains
Valuable Material.

Especial 10 The Times ID ispatch)
Cambridge, Mass. January 26.-The
Harvard Varsity Club has Just pub
lished its first club book. This club
was organized in 1908 to provide quarters
for the training tables of the candi-
dates for the various Harvard athletic
teams and a meeting place for the
coaches and former Harvard players.
Except in very rare instances on &C.
count of exceptional service to
Harvard athletics. the mem bers of the
club are men who have competed
against Yale on Harvard University
baseball mines. crews, football elevens,
or track teams, that ls, they are the
men who are entitled to wear the II.
Last spring the club opened its
splendid new building. which Is at
tached to the Harvard Union. This
new house of the Varsity Club Is "a
memorial TO Francis IL. Burr. 90.
captain Of the Harvard foot ball eleven
which defeated Y ale, points to 0,
at New Haven in the fail of 1908, the
first year that p d. Haughton was
head coach of Harvard football Burr
was the first president of the Varsity
Club. and after his death an anony-
nous contribution of about $4,000 was
made in his memory towards the
erection of house for the club. Ihe
book contains reproductions of num-
Der of photographs OF the exterior
and interior of the house.
But the most valuable metcrlal IN
the book is the tables which give the
records of all the Harvard Yale uni
versity boat races, and baseball, foot
ball. and track games. from the first
competition between these two uni
versities down to the present day
these statistics have been carefully
compiled and it is believed that they
are correct. The record of Harvard
Yale rowing begins with the race
which was rowed in 1852 on Lake
Winni pesaukee in New Hampshire and
goes on through the collegiate
races at Springfield and Worcester,
Mass. and Saratoga, and then to New
London. to POughkeepsie and back to
New London. 1t appears from this
table that Harvard and Yale have
rowed fifty-one university races, of
which Harvard has won twenty-six.
and Yale twenty-five. In recent. years
the two universities have rowed also
fourteen four-oared races, all at New
London, Of which Harvard has won
ten. and Yale four.
Harvard and Yale have met on the
baseball diamond every year since
1865, with the exception of 1891 and 1896.
In some years only one game was played
IN some years five games. but generally
the number has been three. OF the
fOrty-thrce series which have been
played the games of each college year
counting as d series. Harvard has won
twenty-three. Yale has won sixteen.
and three series have been tied.
The Harvard-Yale track meets be-
gan in 1871. and have been held every
year since. except in 1896 Harvard has
won eleven of these meets and Yale
has won ten.
Football is the only one Of the four
so-called "major sports in which
Yale has won from Harvard more
than half the series of annual games
between the two universities The
football matches between these two
ancient rivals began in 1875, when fifteen
men played on each side and the sys-
TEN of scoring was radically different
from that now in vogue. Since 1915
Harvard and Yale have played every
year except 1877. 1885. 1855 1895. and 1896.
OF the thirty-four games which have
been played Yale has won twenty
three. Harvard has won six, and five
have been ties Since 1908 when the
present coaching system began, Har-
ward has won two games. Y ale one. and
the other two contests resulted in to 0
ties