The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
CORN ELL EXPECTS
 GREAT YEAR FOR
 ATHL sou ADS


 Coxneu studenta and grad ates are confident that the season Of 1915 will be banner one for the athletes of the Iithaea university: The rattle closed the 1914 campaign has aroused athletic interest 10 a fever pitch at Cornell and they are getting ready up there to push their banner to the highest point before the cur-s tain drops on the sporting show oE 1915 Cornell is eager to grab some of the honors that have fallen with such consistency in the last few years to Harvard- The chances are in favor of this ambitious pros ram me being successfully carried out leading college sport It is the aim Of all the universities that go in for the. game to prodace first class foot ball eleven. and when success meets these efforts a general boom in sports. is certain Cornell last season sent out the best team 1t has had in many years-an eleven regarded by some who keep close tabs on athletic af- fairs at Ithaca as the greatest ever developed
 Harvard, the champions of tlie year did not have Cornell on is schedule, but it might be just as well for the extensive prestige tta e criIn-s son eleven gained that 1t did not. meet the Ithacans Cornell might not have beaten Harvard had the ! proteges of Dr I, Sharpe would have Furnished the football cham pTons with a titanic battle
 The bulk of the credit for Cor neII'5 howing on the gridi9on goes to Dr. Sharpe, who is also the coach of the baseball and Dasketba1I teams. Taking charge of the football prob 1 lem at Ithaca in 1913 Dr. Sharpe turned out a team that was capable Iof breaking the long run of vic< tories the University of Pennsy yIvani a had scored over Cornell.
 It was the turning point when this hoodoo was lifted and the carne1ian and white gained confidence that it had hitherto lacked When the two teams met last Thanksgiving Day it the annual gridiron battles that Cor nell had entered the contest as fa- 1 voTtte On form the Ithaeas team looked like a sure winner. And form was lived up to, with the result That I Cornell has a record of two straight RennsyIvanfa-
 Cornell has been given the place on the Harvard schsdule6 that the
 dropping of Michigan left. Next to Cambridge to do battle with the J HaEward macine which Eddie
 AGRhan; unanimous all American
 selectio will head It is entirely
 tom premature to make any predfc-
 tf0ns regarding the outcome of that
 engagement, but Cornell is hopeful
 of marking the resumption of friend ly relations with Harvard by a. tri-
 umpE. The Crimson team will be
 minus many Of the stars who won
 fame for it in 1914 while the
 Ithacans may possibly be better than they were this past season. I Athletics at Ithaca are in the fhands Of as powerful 2 corps ol coaches as could be gathered WitI I Charles B. Courtney remaining il
 charge of rowing, Jack AIoakley
 one of the most competent coaches in the country directing the field ane
 track athletes, and Dr. Sharpe at tn helm in football baseball and bas
 ketbaH affairs, the outlook is ex. ceadingIy roseate for Cornell. Ii
 coaching abili can bring athletic
 glory to a uni iveraity. the Ithaca in. stitutton should get it's full share.