New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-27

Seventy thousand persons or more
crowded the new Yale Bowl for the Yale
Harvard contest and witnessed the
crushing of the Yale eleven by the
most powerful and smoothest running
football machine ever turned out at
any institution. The score, 36 to in
favor of the Crimson, established q
record, for never before in the history
Of football between these two ancient
rivals had such a point tally been
made.
Without doubt football is the sport
par excellence in the collegiate world.
but the season of 1914 is still so fresh
in mind that 6 word or two here should
call to mind again its most salient feat
ures. Harvard lost the wonderful
Brickley on the eve of the season, and
Immediately proceeded to build its ma
chine anew. Despite the crushing blow
Of the Harvard game, Yale was more
than justified in its new coaching sys-
TEN, while Cornell again triumphed
over Pennsylvania, an upturning OF an
old gridiron tradition. In the West
Illinois, under the able coaching OF
Claude Zuppke, turned out team
which swept through to the Conference
championship with no one to dispute
the way.
The teams in the East were ranked
thus at the end of the season: 1, Har-
ward; 2, Dartmouth; 8, Yale; 4, Cor
nell; 8, West Point; 6, Princeton; Z,
Washington and Jefferson; 8, Rutgers;
8, Brown; 10, Pittsburgh; il, Will
Jams; ~, Lehigh; 10, Navy; IA, Penn
sylvania; Is, Syracuse; 16, Colgate;
II, Penn State; l8, Tufts; 10, Lafay-
cite; 20, Amherst; p, Trinity; %,
Union; %, Colby, and "a, Wesleyan.
In rowing the victory of Columbia
in the Poughkeepsie regatta stands
out with Harvard's triumph at Henley
as epoch making. Columbia had tried
annually for eighteen years to dupli-
cate it's victory of 1895 on the Hudson
and it remained for Jim Rice's match
less eight to turn the trick. The
Columbia crew of 1914 was, in the
opinion of all who saw il row, one Of
the greatest rowing combinations that
ever sat in she'll Columbia defeated
Princeton and Pennsylvania in a pre-
liminary race before the victory on the
Hudson. Pennsylvania rowed second
to Columbia at Poughkeepsie, Cornell
was third, Syracuse fourth, Washing
ton fifth and Wisconsin sixth.
On the American Thames Yale broke
a string of defeats by beating the Har-
ward varsity eight by inches after a
gruelling race. Yale had retained its
English methods of 1918 and had added
the genius of Guy Nickalls, the world
famous English oar and coach. The
Harvard juniors, the crew which won
at Henley, defeated the Yale juniors.
The Cornell freshmen won at Pough-
keepsie, and a victory earlier in the
season over the Harvard freshmen gave
them the freshman championship.
Cornell won the junior race on the
Hudson.
Baseball presented a problem at the
end of the college season that would
have taken a Euclid to solve, and no
master mind having appeared it is best
to group Harvard, Cornell and Penn
sylvania in the top fight Of college
teams. All three had first class mines,
with Harvard displaying greater bat
ting and fielding powers. Brown,
Dartmouth, Yale and Williams all had
good teams and were so nearly on a
par that it would be folly to try to
separate them and rank them. Prince
ton, Columbia, Amherst, Colgate and
Holy Cross were not far behind the
second general group.
There was a surprise in nearly every
game. Pennsylvania played erratically
and after beating Princeton and Yale,
and breaking even with Harvard, fell
before Cornell in two games out of
three, and before Columbia in three
out of four. Cornell started none too
well, but played remarkably good ball
at the end of the season. Harvard
had the heaviest hitting team, but did
not apply its power any too success
fully and thereby lost games that
should have been victories. These
three, however, stood out above the
rest, although the margin separating
them from the second group was not
great. Yale, despite the fact that it
had tho Ystsxaa combination Of the