Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-18
Yale Shows Poor
Record in Sports
By Hal Sheridan
Written for the United Press)


New York, Dec. 18-What's the
matter with Yale? If some one will
kindly drop into New Haven and
whisper the answer to this question
they might have monument erected
to them, if at the same time solu-
ton of the problem was furnished.
/ Yale staggered through to the finish
of the sporting year with clean
slate, said slate being one Of defeats.
/. In football, rowing and baseball, the
three leading sports, the Blue cracked
and was walloped by Harvard. They
are building an immense stadium for
Yale to play her football games in.
1t will seat $4,000 persons, but the
new "bowl" isn't going to win games,
so far as any one has been able to
| figure.
The disaster which befell the Yale
navy is we'll remembered. Swinging
away on the English stroke with Eng
lish equipment, Yale was swept from
the river by the Crimson oarsmen.
Then Harvard won the deciding base
ball game from the crack Yale nine
in New York by score of 6 to ).
After rousing hopes to high pitch
by holding Princeton to tie on the
gridiron, the Blue crumpled before
Harvard and the toe of Charles Brick
ley. There is rumor that Yale won
chess tournament during the year,
but that isn't being noised about.
Taking look backward, it may be
observed that it has been some time
since Yale kicked through with very
much to crow over. In 1907 the Blue
defeated Harvard in the boat race.
That was the last, as the Crimson
shell has now showed the way to the
line for six consecutive years. Yale
hasn't won a football game from Har-
ward since 1909. The Blue kicked
through that year with an to VIC
tory. Then came scoreless ties in 1910
and 1911. Last year Harvard won 20
to 0 and came back this year Is to 5
, This alone is enough to cause much
puckering of the brows at New Haven,
as it is the first time in history that
a Harvard eleven has downed Yale
in two consecutive filings between the
goal posts.
There is much talk and discussion
of whether the English rowing sys-
tenn shall be thrown out of Yale, but
the chances seem to be that the tea
drinking training and heaving of
clumsy equipment will stick for at
least another season. Something rad
ical will have to be done in the navy,
and a degree of something or other
is in prospect in the football line.
Yale is up against it. Seven of this
years football team will be lost by
graduation. They are Captain Ketch
am, Pendleton, Talbot, Marting, Aims
worth and Avery Wilson, who devel-
oped into one of the best quarterbacks
of the year and Carter, at end, are
the best men in sight for 1914.
AS for "Fair Harvard" it seems
that as long as Percy Haughton sticks
on the job there is bound to be. rea-
sonable amount of football displayed
around Cambridge. Haughton is a
driver, and in picking football team
looks for football players rather than
cotillion leaders and the blue bloods
who can climb, out on limb of their
family tree and shake down stow
away on the Mayflower for reference.
Recalling the Harvard-Yale game, can
you imagine few years ago the name
of O'Brien in the Harvard lineup?
Answering we will say you cannot
O'Briens did not figure among our
oldest families.
( But Haughton doesn't spend his
spare hours looking up social stand
ings. He wants to know how much a
man weighs, and If he is a football