The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07
Campus Talk and Events
IN College Athletic Circles
Movement ON Foot Among Yale Alumni to Establish
Graduate Cheering Section at All Games in Big
Bowl-CoIumba Provides Parallel.
OARSMEN ARE BEST STUDENTS AT SIRAC

There is a we'll defined movement on
foot among the alumni of Yale ~ have
the allotment of seats for future big
football games al the Bowl in New
Haven made by classes. This would
create a graduate cheering section and
would he "A great boon to the old timers
for more reasons than one. In the first
place II would make IL possible for the
grads to come back to games. go to their
seats and md their old friends. a thing
which is almost impossible now. the
/ crowd is so great.
The plan is to have the class section
seats sold singly, in pairs and in blocks
of three. At the present time II old
| Yale men want good seats they have
~ take their full quota OF four, OF II
they want singles they must go 10 the
back seats OF the stands. II would keep
the good seats out of the hands Of specu-
latDrs as we'll, for now very often an
old timer takes his allotment Of seats.
and as he may want TO use only one,
dispDses OF the others az quickly as pos
sible
should the scheme he tired II would
of course entail little extra labor on
the part OF the ticket department be
cause OF the great seating capacity. inc
alumni. however. point out that with
.
mands gained at the ames last fall the
ticket depar could fall into line
readily and the matter might he adj
/ iusted easily Prior TO the time the
Bowl was built Harvard with larger
seating capacity in it's stadium had
graduate cheering section which proved
a great success
The idea is not new one by any
means, nor was Harvard the first to
try II. Years ago when the Columbia
basketball team was winning champion
| ships with great regularity and the gym
nasium was packed to capacity NJ the
bigger games the graduates were seated
together by classes and there never was
any confusion about the matter. or
course the attendance AT the Columbia
basketball games was small compared
Ia that at one Of the hig football games
PLAYED in the Bowl. $500 being about
the biggest crowd that ever Jammed
it's way into the local gymnasium, but
the Yale ticket sellers possess an ad-
vantage In having more time to dispose
Of their tickets.
Crew men al Syracuse University, ac-
cording to carefully compiled statistics,
are far ahead of other athletes, and for
that matter non-athletic students. in the
. average OF their studies. The general
average of Las students in college is
72.4 and in law and medicine 1913. The
! oarsmen twenty-five in number, show
an average OF 77.S in college and S3.S
i'm law and medicine. Thirty-four foot
ball men show averages of ~ in college
and sos in law and medicine. For
twenty baseball men the percentages are
a and SIS for ten basketball players.
7O6 and S22 for thrty-three track
men, 1874 and s3.i, and for seven cross
country runners, all in college, the
average is 10.
Numerals were awarded last season 10
thirty-one Yale freshmen FOR track,
Cross-country and football successes.
The college had sixteen OF these and
Sheffield School fifteen, the science men
predominating only in football Hill
school prepared eleven of the thirty-one
for Yale. while Exeter was next with
seven
Swimming was the most popular sport
| among the freshmen at Yale last season.
, In eleCting "a sport 20 take the place
of required gymna stun work half hun
bred took to the water, 81 consistently
/ and 10 varying II with bowling and gym
squad work There were 70 out for
. ma jor sports, SO for crew, % for foot
ball and 10 for track. Fencing, squas h
= and handhal find the least favor among
4 the freshmen. Yale by the way. is the
- only college that has a regular squash
Z tennis team, hut it seems likely that the
other colleges will follow in their foot
steps soon.
r. y Metcalf, Of the Oberlin coach
ing staft is in favor Of all year coaches
at Obcrlin, the coaches to he members
Of the physical training faculty. W.
| would prefer to have Oberln graduates
r MI the positions.
Q One Of the big features Of tho foot
: hall season a Swarthmore is pig roas
T. to the members Of the team at the clos
!, of the season. The feast ls given by
r one OF the alumni every year
Penn State students recently voted u
d abolish bonfires celebrating the victore
}, OF the athletic teams. The various
a tradesmen at State College were gll,
Il to hear this news. for their signs nov
5 will be left intact The sign painters
IS however, were not so elated.
d The war has left only one thouss M
e students at oxford this semester ant
most of the men who have gone to IN
front are from the athletic classes Wa
time will he counted for the stud"nt
, who have Joined the colOrs as regular at
} tendance at school
trophy room mas ueen lnSldlltn
n Gently at Ohio State College and all q
3 the old time athletes as well as thu
- undergraduate body have been bus
n gathering old mementoos Of the dia
n mond gridiron and track for places il
r the galleries.
Colors for Ohio state were selected
in 1873 At that time the matter wa
not considered very seriously and
>, woman was placed on the committee
"a because of the feminine taste for cot
i ors Orange aud black were choeeI
J. first. hut the committee discovered tina
- little college In the East known a
=, Princeton had been using these color
- for some time, SO II shifted to scarle
:, and gray The committee is said Il
:, have taken the colors for no other reason
- than that they looked pretty. Prac
- tcally no one in the college knew wha
" tho colors were as late "a 1890 whel
class decided to decorate a hall 70
one Of its functions I'm the college color
and had to go to great trouble to fin
s. out what they were. BY strange coin
IN cidencc, Of 279 colleges with Colors, onl'
v one other has the same combination 7
IL Ia Drury College AT Springfield, Mo
T. and was opened in 1873, the same yea
ID as Ohio State,
IT Howard r Bryan of Ohio State in
vented an electric scorehoard for foot