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Among the various sports supported by the College is lacrosse. Although only a minor sport, it is one of the best that exists. It holds for its players every good quality that one can desire. It provides exercise, requires skill, and develops mental alertness; it combines team play and personal contact between players...
...interest to note the position lacrosse holds in other colleges. In some of the colleges of the South and in one of the colleges of the North it is a major sport. At Cornell intramural games are played; a championship university team is awarded black letters. At Syracuse the progress is so rapid that there is a possibility that in the future lacrosse will be played instead of baseball at commencement. At Annapolis the football men are required to play lacrosse...
Northeastern College, which is one of the most recent entrants into the field of intercollegiate sport has shown up particularly well in track. This season the Boston team has defeated Tufts 41-36 and B. U. 36-31. In the B. A. A. games the relay team defeated the Clark University and B. U. teams by 60 yards. In the American Legion games, the team was defeated by Brown University, after one of the Northeastern runners fell...
...with perhaps five additional afternoons on out-lying ponds and marshes. Not a man on the team was on skates the week prior to the last Princeton game. Hockey is impossible under such conditions. An artificial rink must be built in New Haven or hockey, the finest American winter sport, will be of necessity dropped from the Yale athletic program. If hockey is discontinued the university will lose every year a number of the finest men from the leading preparatory schools where hockey is a major sport...
...editorial reprinted below, the Yale News, realizing the hopelessness of successfully carrying on hockey under present conditions, advocates that it be given up until an artificial rink can be built. Under equally disadvantageous conditions for training a swimming team here, it seems advisable to abandon it as an intercollegiate sport until a pool can be built. Such a step would hasten the construction of the pool, and would prevent the continuation of a sport which can hardly be said to bring prestige to Harvard if conducted under the present handicaps...