Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-02
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Agitation for the Forming of Lacrosse Team-Yale Had
Championship Team in 18s3-Moving Pictures of
Undergraduate Life-Conference for Entrance Exam
nations.

New Haven, April 1.-Considerable
agitation has resulted recently in the
forming of a lacrosse team at Yale. An
important meeting of those interested
In the reviving of the one-time sue
cessful sport was held in the trophy
room OF the gymnasium last Friday
evening. About 80 men were present
at the meeting, where the advantages
and points of the game were discussed
ny the speakers. w. E. Nightingale,
captain of the Harvard lacrosse team,
discussed the status of the sport at
training or any particular skill IS re-
quired. Frank Sands, '85, S., a, former
Yale lacrosse player, described athletic
conditions at Yale in his time and
briefly stated the reasons for the aban-
doning of lacrosse at Yale in 1885.
Professor CorWin, chairman of the
Yale University Athletic association,
welcomed the sport, which will put
more men on the athletic field. Con-
corning the adoption of the new spring
sport, DR.. Anderson stated that Yale
had a champion lacrosse team a quar-
ter of a century ago, but since that
time little attention has been paid to
it here. As a substitute for football it
Is worth while, and it also keeps in
condition men who are members Of all
the regular athletic squads. The prom
Use of the spacious new grounds for
sports leads the mass of the under
graduate body to be enthusiastic over
the future out of door competition at
Yale. 1t is the opinion of those inter-
ested that lacrosse will appeal not only
to those who arc now working with
other teams but also to many who can
easily and gladly enter the ranks of
those who want a lively open air activ-
ity of an apparently less strenuous
The chief advantage in introducing
lacrosse as a spring sport is that it
will provide the men who have former
ly played soccer in the spring, and
cannot do so. owing to the abolition OF
the spring soccer. with an opportunity
for outdoor exercise. At Pennsylvania
lacrosse has been substituted for
spring football, and the results, ac
cording to Coach Dickson, are most
successful.
1t may come as a surprise to Yale
men that the championship of the first
intercollegiate lacrosse league was won
by the 1888 team from Yale, her second
lacrosse team in the field; and also
that the position of first defense on the
All-American team sent to England in
1884 was held by E. P. Cottle, 'S4, of
the Yale team. The Yale men were
among the pioneers in the collegiate
lacrosse. In 1877 lacrosse was intro
except for a short while just after
1890, Harvard has put a team into the
field every year, winning the northern
intercollegiate championship eleven
times. New York university was the
second college to organize a lacrosse
team; and before 1884 Yale, Princeton,
Stevens and Columbia had Joined the
new intercollegiate lacrosse associa-
ton. A number of the larger profess
SIGNAL and also preparatory schools be-
came interested in the sport and put
forth creditable teams. At Yale as
the enthusiasm for football increased
interest in lacrosse waned. and soon
the sport was abolished. The first
practice for the spring was held at
Yale field last Saturday. A squad of
SO men reported. This not only is
manifest of the deep interest felt by
the undergraduates but points towards
bright prospects for another champion
ship team.
In order to stimulate an interest in
the New York Yale clubs new quar-
tiers, and to raise additional funds to
maintain the building, the club has re-
Gently sent out circulars to interest
Yale graduates throughout the country
briefly describing the advantages of the
club and soliciting subscriptions. The
New York Yale club is designed not
merely as a superior town club for the
younger Yale graduates, with its
equipment of gymnasium, swimming
pool, and roof garden; the main object
of the building is to provide for a great
Yale institution which has, in the past,
been beneficial in many respects to the
establishing OF Yale graduates in New
York city.