The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-01-31
Discussed Athletics at the
Yale Alumni Banquet
in Albany, n. Y.
PAID WARM TRIBUTE
TO WILLIAM HI. TAFT
Elk President and Gov. Glynn of New
York Were Among the other Speak
ers-Hooker Said There Would be
No More Mollycoddling at Yale.

The thirty-first annual dinner of the
Yale Alumni association of northeast
ern New York was held few nights
ago at the Ten Eyck hotel in Albany
ana was attended by more than LOO
loyal sons of old Eli. Addresses were
made by eXPresident William Howard
Taft, Governor Martin II. Glynn of
New York, Comptroller james +. Hook
er of Schenectady, President Alpheas
/ ii. BulNev Of the association and G.
$ Van Stamford. Mr.. Hooker referred
TO the defeat Of many Yale athletic
teams during the past few years and
urged plans to give TO the university
The prowess il once boosted His re-
marks follow:
. 1t is certainly very great pleasure
for all us Yale men from Schenectady
to he here tonight in honor of Yale
and OF all that Yale stands for And
we are fortunate to have with Us to-
night very living personality of all
that Yale stands for, for no one here
will mistake ne when say that
refer to that splendid American citizen
that highest type of American man
hood, that able Judge, that great adj
ministrator. that wise president, that
! splendid graduate of Yale. William
Howard Taft He By his presence
graces this splendid assembiage Of
thinking, earnest Yale men and in
spires us in no small measure 70 strive
each III our humble way to attain to
the ideal he has set for Us.
= Even it every Vale man strives ia
Ito as near right BY himself. By his
country and hv his university as Nil
liam Howard Taft has done and is do
ing. no Vale man need fear but what
his university Will rank first in this
great nation of ours.
The Yale spirit exists today and is
Just as strong as 1t was 20 years ago
aud ~ years ago, and 10 wears ago, and
% years ago. The Male spirit, the
courage TO do things, still survives ami
is still strong as ever.
Yet we all realize that in order for
tins spirit TO exist in IT. highest use
futuess, such meetings of Yale alumni
a the one We are present ut tonight,
are necessary. For it Is at such meet
ings that men of different classes and
of different years can draw near each
other and talk over their DAYS at Yale.
j And as many minds and many opinions
are in IA general sense better than one
mind or one opinion, so the different
views given here cannot fail to be Of
use TO the material good of the univcr-
sity.
: 1t seems 10 me proper at this time
to say that while the scholarship at
y ale is "a high or even higher than in
my day, the standing of the university
IS even greater than in my day, its
power for good in the nation is even
stronger, still there is not a Yale. man
sitting here tonight who does not re-
greet in y greater or smaller degree thai
athletic standing of our college has
been seriously threatened if not de
stroyed in the last few years And that
the Yale spirit of former times must
to "a certain extent, be breathed into
the Yale men of this time In order that
once more we may show four miles OF
water to the Harvard crew; that one,
more our shouts of victory may SCUM,
loud and clear as the football team
plun9es and crashes its way to q wei
merited victory. That once more W.
may he able to see the crashing hit ii
baseball that brings us in the winnin.
run. That again in jump and hurdle
and pole vault and quick decisive race
the white and blue may win 10 a Vie
tory
For. men, such things count auC
the stand today is for the youth 81
versitv not only on account of the ad
vantages to be gained in scholarshil
but also on account of the standing i
has before the world in athletics New
er triier saying than .'Mens SAM
in corpora sano.
1t is useless to try to deceive ON
selves or in any way to dismiss tn
fact that something in athletics ha
been for the last few years RADICAL
wrong at Yale. Successive losses i
football. the repeated defeats of tn
university crew and the fact that tn
splendid baseball team of 1913 was III
able at the close of the season to wi
the series with Harvard, gives US jus
cause for serious thought.
''In regard to football, we can a
look forward to better things this yea
for the football authorities have a
least appointed the one man TO tn
position of coach of the football teal
who will make good and who will
one of two things The team Will wi
or he will kill the team. do not hay
to refer to that great % captain
Frank \. Hinkey.
''There will be no more moliy-co'
ding of a Yale football team and me
Will either be IN such physical eond
ton that they can play the game an
play it out, or they will not be allows
10 start in the game. | have but
think back to my day and short
after my day TO remember men Iii
Jim Rogers. who thought nothing
playing through championship gan
with water on the knee and of mat
rally assisting in winning that contcs
Today the tendency has seemed to Il
to be to send !; man with small mu
Gle strain to the infirmary to rest for
week or two. This will not happen
the 1914 Yale team under the directi,
of Frank A. Hinkey.
Il think this coming fall we W
dedicate our new stadium with Il v
tory over Harvard aud, men, let l