Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-16
YALE IS A HAs-BEEN
PAST YEAR DISASTROUS
TO ALL ELI AGGREGATIONS
roo Much Fraternity Fnvoritisni Snid
tn BE Responsible for Its
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NEW YORK.. July !a.-onre the col
waved aloft from every championship
peak; once it was the athletic stand
ard by which all other colleges were
and more. Yale ruled almost undis-
,urhcd in the realm of collegiate
sports And now
Poor old Yale
Never i'll the entire history Of the
institution have it's athletic teams. as
whole. made such a miserable show
ing as during the l?l3-l?l6 season.
It's royal blue standard has been
dragged through the mire of defeat
so often that the original hue is al
lopcd so badly in the major portion
OF its athletic starts in college sea-
son just closed that it's name has be-
come a synonym for also ran"
And the cause OF it all seems TO be
that some of the so-callcd high
brow" fratcrnitics have been permitted
teams. I" the utter rout Of Yale. Up
IN New Haven way il apparently be-
came case "f III you don't belong to
such ana such frat. YOU can't be-
long to the team; but il you arc "a
mcmhc" of that frat. place is yours
FOR the asking.
Vale WAS great. man won place
only through sheer ability. Pull
didn't count. lie rad to deliver the
goods or heat it from the squad. lie
ular position. or he didn't got onto
the varsity. Md that was tho era
when the Yale teams. made up OF red
Hooded. strong willcd. lighting youths.
made Yale world famous-madc ii the
mirhticSt power in the kingdom OF
sports.
tain clique gained control OF athletic
affairs ut Yale and ran things to suit it,
self. ram them in such Il way that Yale
became bag for every one to punch.
That cntcric Of youths evidently de-
cidcd that so long as il had power il
would use II TO gain varsity sweaters
ana questionable varsity glory for it's
friends and society brethren. 1t ac-
c"mrlished It's selfish purpose and
made Yale an athletic laughing stock.
Main, Am5 4Srs is the sr rSsnlt eth eGlH
teams accomplished during the past
season under the high brow regime
showing that must bring anguish to
every loyal Yale graduate. who gave
their all in other days to lift Yale to
the heights from which ii has been
tumblod by the youths of the present
Nale eleven was the worst OF any Rluc
team in history. Yale played nine
games and won hut four. one of its
Victories was n 7-to-6 nukc triumph
over Lehirh The teams that beat
Yale We're: Virginia, Washington and
jefferson, Brown. Colgate and Hair
ward. The crimson crew handed to
Val" the worst beating ever suffered
by AN Eli outtit-a il-to-0 lamming
Yale, in it's nine games. scored a to-
tai of only So points. Its foes scored
Hockey: Yale played seventeen
games and won only ten, despite the
fact that man soft combats were
picked ont for il. Yale lost to Prince
tom ~ the best two out OF three cham
piouship series, and she lost also to
Harvard. which beat her two out of
three.
Soccer: Yale finished third In the In
tcrcoil"giatc Soccer League.
WrrstlinE: Ecafen by Princeton for
championship
swimming: Championship won by
Yale. cribs was the only athletic
tttlc annexed 10y Eli during l9lj-l6.)
Basketball: Vale won fourteen out
Of twenty basketball games. suffering
defeat ut the hands OF Cornell twice),
Syracuse, Pittsburgh. the Crescent \.
n. Dartmouth and PENNSYLVANIA.
Baseball: Yale won only eight out
of twenty thre" games and made one
of the most miserable Showinrs OF any
yale diamond outfit The fielding OF
tn" club at times was atrocious: il
Was q weak hitting comhinat ion. and
ats pitching STAFF WAS only fair
Boat racing: Yale did not win a
race III any OF the rerattas. Her en-
try AGAINST PENNSYLVANIA in the one
ana one half mile race was beaten
10y u length: her crew was a poor
'hirh in the Corncll-Princeton- Yale
meet: she was beaten by Columbia in
ia" rae" in New Haven harbor last
fail. aud her freshmen, junior varsity
anu varsity crews were second to liar
Nari IN TIA" New London regatta i'm
IUuctimc
Poor old Yale,