The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
HARVARD TO BOOM
TRACK ATHLETICS
Crimson Anxious for Greater
Success in Intercollegiate
Competition Next Season.

Special Despatch to THE NEW York HERALD
CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Dec. 1S.-The long
term of conditioning for Harvard's bis
squad OF track athletes will end mex,
Tuesday, and on January 5, after the
holiday recess, William j. Bingham, '16,
director. and 'Pooch" Donovan. trainer,
will begin in earnest the reconstruction
of the track and field team
Bill Bingham has been at Cambridge
since early fall and the college has been
conbed for athletic material The Grim
sons track teams have fallen off dur
ing the last five or six years. There
have been plenty of stars from time
to time, but the balance of the team
has not been good enough to bring any
intercollegiate success. and only an oc-
casional victory in the dual meet. which.
from Harvard's standpoint. is of greater
Importance than the intercollegiate
championships.
Bingham will spend the winter in the
effort to provide promising material for
the track team coaches, and the ii. y. a.
is backing up the policy to allow the
athletes every opportunity for COMPETE
ton 1t is now planned to have spring
meets at Annapolis and at University
of Virginia, to send men to practically
all the winter meets in the East and
possibly there will be another triangular
meeting in Boston for the teams from
Harvard, Dartmouth and Cornell.
Expect Fisher Back.
The election OF football captain and
the completion of the varsity football
schedule for next fall leave only the
coaching situation to be settled. Dur
a
Bob Fisher would not care to continue
as head coach, but since the Yale game
the former Crimson captain. who has
developed winning elevens in 1919 and
1920, has been discussing plans for an
other season, and this is taken to mean
that he will be on the Job again.
The football committee would like to
see Fisher under contract for more thar
one year. but so far he has declined to
tie himself up for a longer term. There
are likely to be changes in the auxiliary
staff. however. Tom Woods will be one
of the players whose services as line
coach will be sought. 1t seems unlikely
that Ralph Horween, who did such 6
good job with the kicSers last season
will be available another season, and /
coach for the kickers will be the hard
est place to fill.
Two happy bits of football rumor are
that Tolbert is thinking favorably OF
playing football again next fall before
starting his work in the law school, and
the coaches believe that if Keith Clark
returns from the West next season he
will be able to make place on the team
at end. Great things were expected OF
Clark last year, but he did not assimi-
late Harvard end play sufficiently until
too late to be OF use as regular man.
Boxing Squad of zoo.
Conley. coach of the boxing class, has
more than 200 men working under his
direction. There are four classes, held
three times Il week, and fifty-six mer
work together. Plenty Of intranura
competition is promised, although, as
faculty have not regarded favorah!y
any propositions for holding intercolle.
giate boxing competitions.
The basketball team, now led by Toll
bert the football guard, is developing
fast. Fits, also a football player, and
Tolbert are the two stars. The five
have been practising against the fresh.
men and Will be started into its regular
schedule after the Christmas recess.
SO far the hockey players have had
no chance to work The four Kinks or
Soldiers Field are flooded. awaiting th5
first real freeze. Bigelow, captain. 1.
conditioning the squad. but will make
no cuts until it is possible to get his
candidates on the fee, either out oil
doors or at the new arena.