The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-20

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Training Soon
WILL WORK HARD FOR PLACES
ION WINTER AND SPRING
SPORT TEAMS.
COLD WEATHER SPORTS ARE
GIVEN MORE ATTENTION
THAN HERETOFORE.

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and universities in all parts Of the
country will resume training imme.
diately after the Christmas holidays.
Places are open for varsity contend
ers in basketball, hockey, gymnastics,
swimming, baseball, lacrosse, track
and crew combinations, and compe-
tltlon 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
ont 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 a
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 2 NUM-
Der Of the big indoor meets at Bos-
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praetice, for ,tAe baseball, players will,
be started early in January, while
the swimmers will plunge into the.
pool about the same time. The wres'
tiers, fencers and gymnasts are al
ready on edge for the opening of their
season of competitions, 80.
For spartan simplicity the valcdic-
tory of the 1913 Notre Dame foot
ball eleven is welcome relief from
the fulsome praise accorded teams
which fell short of the record estab-
lished by the Indiana combination.
The team which scored 1877 points to
its opponents Al, and defeated West
Point, Penn State and Texas Uniycr-
sity during the season was accorded
the following paragraph in the Uni
versity publication after IT'S final vic
tory at Austin, Texas ~
"The 1893 varsity eleven passed
into history Thanksgiving Day on
Clarke field, Austin It's history has
been the most glorious of all Notre
DAME elevens. & We cannot say how
proud we. feel, but to, the men of IL
we say You have done your work
we'll -
AS the result Of recent ruling by
the National Rifle association, the
Princeton university rifle team has
been awarded the eastern non-mili-
tary college rifle shooting champion
ship for the season Of 1912-13. The
REIMBURSEMENT Of awards was made
when the score OF the Harvard team
made against the Massachusetts, Ag-
ricultural college was protested by
the latter on the ground that the
Harvard team used long rifle cart
ridges instead of short, as called for
under the conditions of the match.
The claim having been acknowledged,
the executive committee of the Ma
tional Rifle association of America
threw out the Harvard score and
gave the championship Of the East
ern league to the Massachusetts Ag-
ricultural college, with Princeton in
second place. The specie trophy Civ
en- to the,cQllege not having milk
tary department., which had been won
by Har,ya8Aslwepkstal Princeton by
this ruling.
I lThes saigsgestt6H' 'timRRatiXg frd hi
lYa1e 'tRat thenaHhaail Har2afd::Ysle
football game be played on thgSat-
urday following Thanksgiving int
stead of The Saturday before falls ITO
find favor at Harvard,.'"The Harvard
Crimson In an editorial on the SUBJ,
ject states: ;
Thine was when Yale played
Princeton and Harvard on SUGGEST ye
Saturdays and was we'll pleased with
the arrangement and results. To
postpone the game week would be
to make football a nearly winter
sport. But, more than that, the Grim
son believes that any lengthening Of
the football season would be bad
from the point Of view OF the play
crs 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 splendid coun-
ter-irritant, but it could easily be-
come a dan gerous 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 hon
ored. Through college. and town sub
scripttons gold football watch charms
will be purchased and awarded all
the players who participated in the
games Of 1918. A special souvenir
will also be presented to halfbacS
SPECIAL who personally scored 1877 Of
the total S45 points i
An ultimatum regarding rubGy
football at Stanford University was
recently issued by Prof. Frank An
CELL Of the Faculty Athletic commit
H. ,o;d.