The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-01
COLLEGE ATHLETICS
TO MAKE COMEBACK
All Branches of Sport To Be
Resumed This Year.

There is every indication now that
college athletics will be back this year
on what will approximate a normal pre-
war basis. This means that the an
nual football games of HarVard, Yale,
Princeton and other institutions will
be played again next autumn. There
will also be a resumption of baseball
and the rowing fixtures, with the pos
sible exception Of the P~oughkeepsie re-
gatta, and minor sports will also flour
ish.
The activity in college athletics, after
q period of nearly two years, is as
sured by the announcements of the
various colleges and universities that
sports will be resumed at once. This
has been made possible by the demobi-
~lization of the S. A. T. c. and the re-
turn of many athletes to private life.
While not all the former stars will be
able to return to their schools in time
for the spring and summer sports, they
will probably all have returned by next
fall. In the meantime coaches find a
wealth of material developed while the
schools were under military supervision.
Efforts are already being made to or
ganize basket ball and hockey teams
for the present winter. Yale, Harvard
and Princeton are preparing to form
a hockey league again. The plans for
lit are only being held up by the fact
that the rink at New Haven, where
Yale held it's home games, has been
turned to other uses. A new rink will
likely be arranged for In time to make
up a schedule.
Harvard is probably as well pre-
pared as any of the big Eastern col
1eges to resume sports on a large scale.
Only on the question of football is the
whether Maj. Percy Haughton will re-
turn to coach the gridiron squad. He
Is now in France in the chemical war
fare branch of the service, and it is
not known when he will be able to
return to Harvard. In the meantime,
Bob Fisher, Haughton's chief assistant;
Leo Leary, and Reggy Brown are on
hand to handle the gridiron sport until
Haughton can take charge.
Yale is preparing TO ~reorganlZe all
sports except football, which will have
to wait for further developments next
year. But the cages are ready for the
baseball candidates and hockey plans
are already under consideration. Cap
tains and managers are considering the
athletic situation during the holidays
with the view of issuing calls for can
didates early next month,
At Princeton, where the army activi'
ties have practically come to an end
practice has already been started II
basket ball and swimming, and by The
time the new term begins next month
there will be a general resumption o
sports. Princeton has declared for {
full sport calendar and intercollegiate
schedules are now being arranged fol
basket ball, water polo and wrestling.
Most important or Princeton's pro
gram is the decision to establish foot
ball on its former scale. Bill Roper
who coached the championship Tige.
eleven in 1911, will probably be engaged
again. In addition there will b,
SPEEDY" Rush, Ross McClave, Park,
Davis and Snake" Ames to assist.
Pennsylvania will make its first NOV,
TO get back to a prewar basis by turn
. ing attention to the development o
track and field material. Coach Lieut.
Lawson Robertson IS expected bach
soon to take charge of the athletes
He has been stationed at Garden City
but a request has been made that h
be discharged. He will begin at ono,
to sift material in order that Penn ma,
be well represented in the champion
rhips next year.