New-York tribune., 1920-01-07
Blue and White
Stadium Will
Cost Million
Columbia Authorities Ready
to Start Construction
When Cash Is Procured
By Ray Mccarthy


If the athletic authorities at Morn.
ingside Heights can dig up a million
dollars or so Columbia University will
have suitable stadium for its football
games and other big events. The site
is available at the foot of 114th Street
and the Hudson River, permission hav-
ing been granted in 1909 by the Legis-
lature and the Water Commission to
extend the land into the river and
thereon to construct a stadium But
that million-dollar pittance is the
hindrance.
With the tremendous boom in sports
and with the expansion of Columbia's
football policy, the local university and
New York City could make good use Of
an athletic stadium. In fact, both are
sadly in need of such a plant, and for
the general welfare of sports and the
public it should be constructed.
Lester Danielson, graduate-manaeer
OF athletics at Columbia, in discussing
the matter last night, said:
mo one probably realizes the need
of Columbian stadium more than we
at the university. We have the site.
the land, the permit-in fact, every
thing but the money-for it's construc-
ton. The money virtually is all that
is needed for its completion, but it is
nowhere in sight at present, as far as
we can see.
ter pro and con, but the opinion pre-
walls that gift is our only salvation.
At least a presentation of the money
would hasten the project by years.
South Field is entirely Inadequate
for our athletic needs, but it is all
we have at present and we shall have
to be content with it until relief comes.
BY revenue from our games, by con-
tributions and general subscription we
hope to be able to build in the course
of time but that period is far distant,
unless l am mistaken"
1t has been suggested at various
university in building a stadium, but
thus far nothing has been done in
this respect.
The American Olympic try-outs will
be held early this summer. New York
is the logical place, but there is no
place here to hold them. The Oxford
Cambridge and Yale-Harvard track
meet and other big sporting events
would be held in the New York stadium
if one existed. Many other national
events which take place annually
W"ulu ue StdSeu III local aMpnl-
theater.
spe aking of stadiums, Chicago Uni
versity is planning to construct a
plant that will accommodate more than
100000 people, and Los Angeles intends
to brild a stupendous sporting palace.
The University Of Pennsylvania is also
contemplating a new stadium that will
equal any in the country, it is said.
Until Monday night little was known
OF the prospects of the Dartmouth bas-
ketbal team. In the past the Green has
not cut wide swath in league compe-
tition, and followers Of the court game
were pondering on the chances Of the
Hanoverians this year. Let it be said
right here they need ponder no longer.
Dartmouth will be up there this season
and will be fighting for that top place
in the stretch.
Any team that can give this years
Crescents as close q rub as Dartmouth
did Monday night can be set down as a
good team, be it professional or anna
teur. The Crescent's is an all-star line
up, composed of eX-collegians who
starred at their alma matters. Dartmouth
not only gave the Brooklyn FIVE a close
tussel, but came the nearest to winning
Of any team that has played on the
Half Mooners' court in the last three
years.
And now the stage is set for whirl-
wind series of games in the league.
With Penn, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale
and Cornell all about evenly matched,
the winners of the title will be in doubt
until the final whistle blows Columbia,
which will open it's league season with
Yale on Saturday night, must brace
considerably to figure in the race. But
there is some good material at the local
institution, and under the capable
and White may yet be heard from.