The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-11
PENN. ATHLETIC
 TEAMS HUNG UP CLASSY RECORD
Quakers Unbeaten in Box ing and Basketball;
 Football Squad Able

Philadelphia, June 1.-The win- ming of the Eastern Intercollegiate League basketball championship, the best football season in a decade, the individual exploits C. Gene GiS- burne in swimming and the first undefeated boxing season, feature the annual report on athletics at the University of Pennsylvania is- sued by H. Jamison Swarts ,direc- tor of athletics.
 During the academic year 1936- 37 athletes wearing the Red and Blue participated in 119 varsity events of which 67 resulted in vic- tories and g in defeats. The per- centage of .563 is eleven points bet ter than that of year ago.
 Good Record
 The basketball team, in winning the league championship, did not lose a single contest of the twelve played with it's principal rivals. In two other seasons, the Red and Blue was defeated in league competition, in 1909 and 1920. In and out of the league the team won seventeen Of its twenty games, losing only to Notre Dame, Syracuse and St. Jo- sephs
 In football Pennsylvania returned to it's winning ways by defeating seven of it's eight rivals. Only Yale on single touchdown succeeded in reversing the Red and Blue Prince ton, Navy, Michigan, Penn State, Cornell, Brown and Lafayette were defeated by Pennsylvania during the course of the season.
 While the swimming team did not fare too well, finishing sixth in the newly formed league, it boasted of one member. Gene GiSburne, who was outstanding. Only once during the season did Gisburne lose a fifty yard sprint and that occurred when he slipped and fell into the pool at the start of a race with Dartmouth He won sixteen races in the fifty and hundred during the season and in the national intercollegiate cham pionships, scored six points in the sprints. finishing second in the hun dred and fourth in the fifty.
 The boxing team with Lorman Esterson ard Sol Mallsik. as it's fea- tured performers, Gcfeated Yale. Rutyers and Princeton for it's best Scas on in history.
 The baseball team wen nine of its sixteen contests and finished fourth in the Eastern Intercollegiate League. It was the best season since the championship days of 1881.
 The crew did not win champion ship regatta, during the season but gave an excellent account of itself in each race. Graduation riddled the excellent crews of the two previous seasons with the result that Rusty Caliow had to build crew from a nucleus of only two veterans.
 In track Pennsylvania had one of its most disastrous seasons losing the dual meets to Yale and Cornell, failing to score sinfile point in the I. c. A. championships. and finishing last in the Heptagonal games.
 The tennis team continued it's eX- cellcnt record of recent years by winning eight of it's twelve matches. Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Co., lumbia won from the Red and Blue.
 Not So Bad
 Seven teams, two more than last year, won majority of their con- tests, while the same number lost more than were won. Football, SOC cer, basketball, baseball boxing, ten his and golf concluded their seasons with more on the victory side of the ledgre than on the losing side. Crew, track, swimming, water polo, wrest- ling, fencing and lacrosse lost more matches than were won.
 The complete record of the teams follow: Football, won ?, lost 1; soc- cer, won 5, lost 4; basketball, won IT, lost 3: crew, wor c, lost 3; track, won 0, lost 2; baseball won g, lost T; swimming. won 4, lost G. water polo. won 3, lost g. boxing, won 3, lost O; wrestling, won l, lost 5; fenc- ing, won 3, lost 5; lacrosse, won ?, lost 5; tennis, won 8, lost 4; golf, won 6, lost 4.