Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-03
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Freshmen Who Have Entered From Eastern Connecticut Much Activity in Athletics Town and Gown" Feeling Still Undergraduates Active in Aeroplane Flights.
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] New Haven, Oct. 2.-The registration ! of the freshman class now practically ! c0Ea9late, indicates that the entering i class in college is larger than any pre- yious one. There are 3s1 men in 1917, and 35s in the Shelf freshman class, 1 the latter figure being a considerable decrease from last year Connecticut sends S4 men to academic and 121 to Shelf, while the New York students in academic number 110 and in the coEaes the third largest number of 1 freshmen, 53, from Pennsylvania 47 and from Massachusetts 37. From Cal ifornia there are II men, from Wash 1 ington '. and 40 states are represented in all
 Eastern Connecticut does not send down a large representation of stu dents this year although the Shelf field men outnumber their academic brothers. In the college the enroll ments include Howard Torrey Byles of Central Village, Edward Northrop Chapman of Lyme, and Raymond T. J. Higgins of Norwich. The Sheffield freshmen are Leroy Amos Swan Charles Downer Prentice and Harold Watson White of Norwich, John Alex ander Prior Of Moosup. John Francis Sullivan of PlainfieId and David Leon- ard Bacon of Assonet, Mass. is for mer Norwich young men who is a member of 1916 s.
 Nicholas V. Walsh of Norwich. graduate of Trinity college. Hartford. has returned for his second year of graduate work in the Scientific school.
 Through the week without a Iet-up the Vale football team has been per- fecting it's old plays and taking up new ones and even in the rain Wednesday secret practice was held at the field The coaches saw a twenty-five per cent. improvement in the eleven as it played against Holy Cross, Saturday over the Wesleyan game. The forward pass has been in the focus of atten- tiOn and the work on this play and on new formations were encOura ging in their results this year. Two finely eX- ecuted forward passes. one after the other the first that Yale had made this year, gave the touchdown in the Holy Cross game, after Guernsey had drop kicked a goal from the 9 yard line early in the game. Captain Ket cham seems to be a sure, almost in fallible goal kicker judging from his early season work. The report that he is to be removed from center to guard permanently is an interesting tODic now
 Tn the game with Maine Saturday the first played with that university, it is not expected that Yale will equal Harvard's $40 score. At the same time it will give some comparison be- tween the work of the two teams.
 The Vale Basketball associ ation has decided to put it's team hack into the intercollegiate league, after having withdrawn it last year for independent games. The year before that the team had finished in last place and interest in that sport had departed This win ter the association hopes to restore in terest in the games with Cornell, Col gate, Princeton. Dartmouth and Penn sylvania that are on the schedule,
 On the occasion of the Shelf. rush last Saturday nioht there was more casion offers. the old feeling between town and gown" has not vet died down, Roaming about the streets in the neighborhOOd of the college and Shelf town, in bands of from to 90, the town fellows ("-muckers' is the technical name for them), swoop down upon isolated students and relieve them of hats and any other articles that come away easily On High street, just outside Berkplev oval and under the windows of the dormitories, a town gang assaulted two juniors Saturday night They knocked one down and they took the other mans tlid'' away and the attitude and the clubs of the score of "muckers' did not counsel resistance. But occasionally the town chaps meet their match When five of them encountered a lone student. who was. though they did not know it. one of the best boxers in the college, they were horribly surprised. He grabbed two of the youths and knocked their heads together. then proceeded to lay out the others in one, two, three or der.
 call for track candidates brought out 75 men "Wednesday night to the gymnasium. where amidst the tro- phies of former athletic victories plans for another championship year were made. Coach Queal has a cross Coun- try squad of 70 out this week and. the outlook for the fall meets is bright Thursday night the crew meeting was held in the trophy room and general plans for the betterment of the Yale navy were outlined. Captain Snowden